Mobile phones, institutional quality and entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Orim, Stella-Maris

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2017.08.007

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“…Political instability and the absence of violence gauge the depth of sponsored or unsolicited violence or terrorism. These measures of institutional quality agree with institution-centric literature (see Asongu and Nwachukwu 2016a, b;Asongu et al 2018b;Bankole et al 2015;Barasa et al 2017 for some examples).…”

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confidence: 87%

On the search for environmental sustainability in Africa: the role of governance

Adekunle

2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Africa remains the most affected by environmental degradation, thereby exacerbating the negative effect of climate change in the region. Little empirical credence has been leaned to the institution-environmental sustainability relationship in Africa. This omission in the literature of environmental sustainability is abysmal, considering the role of institutions and government in ecological preservation. To inform policy and research on the subject matter, we estimated a unbalanced panel data of the indices of good governance and strong institutions to explain transformation to environmental sustainability using the dynamic system generalised method of moment estimator from 1996 through 2017. Findings suggested a positive relationship between the rule of law and regulatory quality and transformation to environmental sustainability. An inverse relationship between government effectiveness and environmental sustainability was established. We recommended concerted effort at an institutional level such that policy and punishment for violation of greenhouse strategies will be optimum.

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confidence: 87%

On the search for environmental sustainability in Africa: the role of governance

Adekunle

2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…On the other hand, the impact of mobile phones or mobile Internet on social development or individual well-being has also received extensive attention from scholars [19]. There is quite an extensive amount of literature showing that mobile phone and/or mobile Internet use can reduce corruption [54,55], improve institutional quality [56], affect individual social networks [57], increase search convenience [46,58], etc. However, other studies have also found that excessive use of mobile phones can cause "technostress", which has negative effects on users' mental and physical health and work efficiency [59][60][61].…”

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Does Mobile Phone Penetration Affect Divorce Rate? Evidence from China

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Marital happiness is an important symbol of social harmony and can help promote sustainable economic and social development. In recent years, the rapid rise of the divorce rate in China, a country where the divorce rate had previously been low, has attracted wide attention. However, few articles have focused on the popularization of information and communication technology's impact on China’s rising divorce rate in recent years. As a first attempt, the provincial panel data during the period 2001–2016 is applied to study quantitatively the relationship between mobile phone penetration and the divorce rate. In order to get more reliable estimation results, this paper uses two indicators to measure the divorce rate, and quantile regression is applied for further analysis. Additionally, one-year to five-year lag times of the mobile phone penetration are used as the core explanatory variables in order to analyse the lagging effect of mobile phone penetration on divorce rate. The result shows that the correlation between the mobile phone penetration and the divorce rate was statistically positive significant in China during the period 2001–2016. Furthermore, the paper also finds that mobile phone penetration had the greatest impact on divorce rate in central China, followed by eastern China, but it was not obvious in western China during this period. From a technological perspective, this paper provides some possible explanations for the rising divorce rate in China in recent years, and further enriches the relevant research on the impact of the development of information and communication technology on societal changes.

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“…This makes mobile payments deployment relevant to the growth and development of businesses across the world (Oliveira et al 2016). More importantly in developing countries, the mobile payment revolution is transforming households and businesses by providing a business solution to small and medium-sized businesses as well as mobile phone-related financial services to the underserved population, and help developing economies leapfrog poor non-existing payment infrastructure (Asongu et al 2018).…”

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Assessing the Role of Trust in Merchant Adoption of Mobile Payments in Ghana

Yeboah

Boateng

Owusu

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Encouraged by the crucial need to understand merchant adoption of mobile payment, this study explores the role trust play in the adoption of mobile payment by merchant and the enablers for merchant's trust in mobile payment systems. This was done by Conceptualising the characteristics of the service provider and technology characteristics as the two dimensions that could influence merchant adoption of mobile payments. The study was done through the lenses of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Trust-Theoretic Model and adopted a qualitative approach where two merchants were selected from the health sector. The findings demonstrate that the role of merchant trust is very critical for adoption due to m-payment technology and security risk. Hence, sufficient trust-building structures in mobile payment space are essential for the adoption of mobile payment by merchants. Moreover, the findings indicate mobile service provider characteristics and the mobile technology characteristics are both imperative toward building trust in mobile payment systems for merchants' adoption. The study also found that the trust of both technology and service provider has a far more critical influence on merchants' adoption of mobile payments than perceived usefulness or ease of use. The study, therefore, recommends that service providers should consider the opportunity to nurture merchant trust because merchant trust acts as a fundamental enabler for the adoption of mobile payments. Other implications are also discussed.

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Mobile phones, institutional quality and entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 101 publications

References 100 publications

On the search for environmental sustainability in Africa: the role of governance

On the search for environmental sustainability in Africa: the role of governance

Does Mobile Phone Penetration Affect Divorce Rate? Evidence from China

Assessing the Role of Trust in Merchant Adoption of Mobile Payments in Ghana

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