Mobile phones, institutional quality and entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa
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In this paper, mobile phone penetration modulates the effect of different indicators of governance on some indicators of the ease of doing business in Sub-Saharan Africa with data from the period 2000-2012 by employing the generalized method of moments.About:
This article is published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change.The article was published on 2017-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 67 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mobile phone & Entrepreneurship.read more
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Educational quality thresholds in the diffusion of knowledge with mobile phones for inclusive human development in sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated critical masses or thresholds of educational quality at which the diffusion of information with mobile phones enhances inclusive human development, based on simultaneity-robust fixed effects regressions with data from 49 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012.
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Challenges of Doing Business in Africa: A Systematic Review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a systematic review of challenges to doing business in Africa by answering two critical questions: What are the linkages between the ease of doing business and economic development; and what are the challenges in Africa?
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Institutional determinants of R&D investment: Evidence from emerging markets
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation of panel data for 664 firms from selected 20 emerging markets during the period of 2006-2013, and found that institutional quality has significant impact on R&D investment.
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FinTech, SME efficiency and national culture : evidence from OECD countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of financial technologies (FinTechs) on SME efficiency using the Generalized Method of Moments methodology and 1,617 SME firms from 22 OECD countries during the period 2011-2018.
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R&D investment, firm performance and moderating role of system and safeguard: Evidence from emerging markets
TL;DR: The authors examined the effects of country level investor protection (safeguards) and governance mechanisms (systems) on the relationship between R&D and firm performance using GMM estimation and elasticity testing of panel data for 423 firms from 12 emerging countries.
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