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The impact of mobile phone penetration on African inequality
Abstract
Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to complement theoretical and qualitative literature with empirical evidence on the income-redistributive effect of mobile phone penetration in 52 African countries. Design/methodology/approach: – Robust ordinary least squares and two stage least squares empirical strategies are employed. Findings: – The findings suggest that mobile penetration is pro-poor, as it has a positive income equality effect. Social implications: – “Mobile phone”-oriented poverty reduction channels are discussed. Originality/value: – It deviates from mainstream country-specific and microeconomic survey-based approaches in the literature and provides the first macroeconomic assessment of the “mobile phone”-inequality nexus.
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- Authors
- Asongu, S.
- Venue
- International Journal of Social Economics
- Publisher
- Emerald
- Published
- 2015-08-10
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 706-716
- ISSN
- 0306-8293 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3021003711
- Cited by
- 192
- References
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- FWCI
- 44.15
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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