The Role of Governance in Mobile Phones for Inclusive Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Simplice A. Asongu, Jacinta C. Nwachukwu. 2016

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This study assesses the synergy effects of governance in mobile phone penetration for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa with data for the period 2000-2012 by employing a battery of interactive estimation techniques, namely: Fixed effects (FE), Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) and Tobit regressions. Concepts of political (voice & accountability and political stability/no violence), economic (government effectiveness and regulation quality) and institutional (corruption-control and rule of law) governance are employed. The following findings are established. First, the previously apparent positive correlation between mobile phones and inclusive development can be extended to a positive effect. Second, whereas political governance is overwhelmingly not significant across estimated models, average effects from economic governance are higher relative to institutional governance. Third, on the synergy effects from interactions between mobile phones and governance variables, whereas none are apparent in FE regressions, there are significant synergy effects in GMM and Tobit estimations, notably, from: (i) regulation quality in the former and (ii) political stability, voice & accountability and rule of law in the latter. Fourth, there is consistent evidence of convergence in inclusive human development. Policy implications are discussed.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Inequality and gender economic inclusion: The moderating role of financial access in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020, background): “…of foreign aid in order to improve socio-economic development in the post-2015 development agenda (Page & Söderbom, 2015; Jones & Tarp, 2015; Asongu, 2016) whereas another stream has been concerned with nexuses between education, the sharing of information, the redistriction of income and…”
Mobile phones, institutional quality and entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa (2017, background): “Additionally, exclusively time-invariant variables or years are considered to be strictly exogenous (also Boateng et al., 2016; Asongu & Nwachukwu, 2016b).”
Environmental Degradation, ICT and Inclusive Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2017, result): “Evidence of this extreme poverty trend substantially contrasts with the fact that the sub-region has been enjoying more than two decades of economic growth resurgence which began in the mid-1990s (Asongu and Nwachukwu, 2016a).”
Effects of globalization on peace and stability: Implications for governance and the knowledge economy of African countries (2017, background): “…(2011), and Wantchekon, Klasnja and Novta (2014) on education; Oyelaran-Oyeyinka & Sampath (2007), and Carisle, Kunc, Jones, and Tiffin (2013) on innovation; and Cogburn (2003), Asongu and Le Roux (2017), Letiche (2006), Asongu and Nwachukwu (2016ab) on economic incentives and institutional regime.”
Did the global financial crisis impact firms' innovation performance? The role of internal and external knowledge capabilities in high and low tech industries (2018, unknown): “Previous studies have shown that interpreting the coefficients on constitutive terms as if they are unconditional marginal effects could be misleading, especially when the statistical model is nonlinear (Asongu and Nwachukwu, 2016).”
Mobile Telephony, Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth (2018, background): “These findings find support in Wijeratne and Silva (2014), Suri and Jack (2016) and Asongu and Nwachukwu (2016).”
Renewable and nonrenewable energy consumption, trade and CO2 emissions in high emitter countries: does the income level matter? (2020, methodology): “The generalized two-step Method of Moments is used with forwarding orthogonal deviations instead of difference, which is consistent with heteroscedasticity (U. Shahzad, S. Sarwar et al. 2020).”
Enhancing governance for environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa (2020, unknown): “…instrumental variable estimation approach in which the alternative hypothesis of the Sargan test is the position that the adopted instruments do not affect the outcome variable exclusively via the identified endogenous explaining mechanisms (Asongu and Nwachukwu, 2016d; Beck et al., 2003).”
Information Asymmetry and Market Power in the African Banking Industry (2017, methodology): “…(OIR) test indicates that the instruments do not explain the outcome variable beyond the suspected endogenous variables (see Beck et al., 2003; Asongu & Nwachukwu, 2016b), with the GMM technique (based on forward orthogonal variations), the information criterion needed to investigate if…”
Resource rents and inclusive human development in developing countries (2021, background): “…to enhancements in human capital through quality health and education (Raheem et al., 2018; Ogundari and Awokuse, 2018; Jayadevan, 2021) as well as ensuring environmental sustainability (Asongu et al., 2016; Sarkodie et al., 2020; Hassan et al., 2020; Erdogan et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2021).”