Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/253654 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Publisher: 
ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Kiel, Hamburg
Abstract: 
The study employs macrodata on 42 African countries to examine whether remittances and financial development (including the sub-components of access, depth and efficiency) contribute to the equalisation of incomes across the continent. Robust evidence from the dynamic GMM estimator shows that: (i) remittances heighten income inequality in Africa, (ii) Africa's financial system is not potent enough for repacking remittances towards the equalisation of incomes, and (iii) vis-à-vis financial access and depth, inefficiencies characterising Africa's financial institution is the main reason remittances contribute to the widening of the income disparity gap. Nonetheless, the optimism which we provide by way of threshold analysis shows that channelling efforts into the development of Africa's financial sector could yield shared income distribution dividends. In particular, efforts should be made to achieve a minimum of 23.05 per cent of financial access, and 3.02 per cent for that of efficiency of financial institutions if Africa's financial sector is to repackage external finance towards the equalisation of incomes. A few policy recommendations are provided in the end.
Subjects: 
Africa
Financial Development
Financial Sector Efficiency
Income Inequality
Remittances
JEL: 
F22
F24
G21
I3
N37
O11
O55
Document Type: 
Preprint

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