Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa

By Jenny C. Aker, I. Mbiti. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems, Media Technology

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How has Mobile Phone Penetration Stimulated Financial Development in Africa? (2013, background): “In line with existing literature, we proxy for ‘‘mobile banking=activities’’ with the ‘‘mobile penetration’’ rate (Aker & Mbiti, 2010; Ondiege, 2010).”
The impact of mobile phone penetration on African inequality (2013, methodology): “At the 2007 ‘Connect Africa’ summit, Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda emphasized: “in ten short years, what was once an object of luxury and privilege, the mobile phone has become a basic necessity in Africa” (Aker & Mbiti, 2010, 208).”
Airtime transfers and mobile communications: Evidence in the aftermath of natural disasters (2016, background): “The airtime transfer service we focus on was a common antecedent to most modern mobile money deployments (Aker & Mbiti 2010).”
Risk Sharing and Transactions Costs: Evidence from Kenya's Mobile Money Revolution (2014, background): “Early analysis of the economic impact of cell phones focused on their role in facilitating access to information, particularly with regard to prices (Jensen 2007; Aker 2010; Aker and Mbiti 2010).”
Service innovation and customer satisfaction: the role of customer value creation (2017, background): “…continuous growth in technology and its sophistication, coupled with the proliferation of mobile phones, especially in the telecommunication industry (Aker and Mbiti, 2010), have pushed many mobile network operators to build robust innovative service products in order to gain consumer satisfaction.”
ICT and economic growth : comparing developing, emerging and developed countries (2018, positive): “Aker and Mbiti (2010) discuss, based on the fact that mobile phone usage in Sub-Saharan Africa has grown signiﬁcantly over the past decade, the economic impact of this rapid diﬀusion.”
The Creation and Diffusion of Innovation in Developing Countries : A Systematic Literature Review (2016, positive): “In the current times, this is one emerging insight from the broad diffusion and impacts of mobile technologies and affiliated value-adding financial and health services (Aker and Mbiti, 2010).”
Mobile Money and Financial Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Moderating Role of Social Networks (2018, positive): “A large body of existing empirical evidence suggests that mobile phones can potentially serve as a tool for economic development in Africa, especially in promoting ﬁ nancial inclusion (see for e.g. Aker & Mbiti, 2010; Ggombe, 2015).”
Socio-economic Factors Affecting Adoption of Modern Information and Communication Technology by Farmers in India: Analysis Using Multivariate Probit Model (2016, background): “Jenkins et al. (2011), Thompson (2012), Just et al. (2006) and Ali and Kumar (2010) have demonstrated in their studies that that age, education and income are important parameters that determine farmers decisions to select from different information sources.”
Transport Services and Their Impact on Poverty and Growth in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Recent Research and Future Research Needs (2012, background): “While phones now enable improved distance management, occasional face-to-face meetings facilitated by travel still appear to be key to maintaining strong social bonds (Aker & Mbiti, 2010; Samuel, Shah, & Hadingham, 2005; Urry, 2012).”
Does the Use of Mobile Phones by Smallholder Maize Farmers Affect Productivity in Ghana? (2018, background): “Consistent with this, Aker and Mbiti (2010) note that these technologies enhance access to and use of information and subsequently abate search costs and boost market efficiency.”