2019
DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2019.1664570
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Financial Access and Productivity Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether enhancing financial access influences productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. The research focuses on 25 countries in the region with data for the period 1980-2014. The adopted empirical strategy is the Generalised Method of Moments. The credit channel of financial access is considered and proxied by private domestic credit while four main total factor productivity (TFP) dynamics are adopted for the study, namely: TFP, real TFP, welfare TFP and real welfare TFP. … Show more

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“…The Penn World Table database is the source of the TFP dynamics, namely: TFP, real TFP, welfare TFP and real welfare TFP. In accordance with the motivational elements of this research articulated in the introduction, the main TFP is complemented with other dynamics in order to provide room for findings that are relevant to SDGs (Asongu 2020). Therefore, the adopted TFP variables are consistent with both productivity and the welfare implications of such output.…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 82%
“…The Penn World Table database is the source of the TFP dynamics, namely: TFP, real TFP, welfare TFP and real welfare TFP. In accordance with the motivational elements of this research articulated in the introduction, the main TFP is complemented with other dynamics in order to provide room for findings that are relevant to SDGs (Asongu 2020). Therefore, the adopted TFP variables are consistent with both productivity and the welfare implications of such output.…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 82%
“…It follows that the five seven-year data average is retained for the study, notably: 1980-1986; 1987-1993; 1994-2000; 2001-2007; 2008-2014. The four TFP dynamics used in the study are from the Penn World Table database. They are: TFP, real TFP, welfare TFP andreal welfare TFP. The choice of these variables is consistent with contemporary TFP literature in SSA (Asongu, 2020). In accordance with the extant ICT literature in Africa, two main ICT indicators from the World Development Indicators of the World Bank are adopted, namely: mobile phone penetration and internet penetration (Tchamyou, 2017;Efobi et al, 2018;Asongu, Biekpe & Tchamyou, 2019).…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 90%
“…Accordingly, in GMM regressions the time dimension limits the potential number of control variables that can be involved in a regression exercise in order to avoid the proliferation of instruments, even when the option of collapsing instruments is involved in the estimation exercise (Asongu and Odhiambo, 2020;Asongu, 2019). Hence, using data averages enables this study to involve more control variables and limit potential concerns of instrument proliferation in post-estimation diagnostics tests.…”
Section: Data Description and Sourcementioning
confidence: 99%