Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298240 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/23/047
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
The study assesses the role of mobile money innovations on income inequality and gender inclusion in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1980 to 2019 using interactive quantile regressions. The following findings are established. First, income inequality unconditionally reduces the involvement of women in business and politics. Second, mobile money innovations interact with income inequality to have a positive impact on women in business and politics. Third, net effects from the role of mobile money innovations in income inequality for gender inclusion are consistently negative. Fourth, given that the positive conditional or interactive effects and negative net effects are consistent across the conditional distribution of gender inclusion, thresholds at which mobile money innovations can completely dampen the negative effect of income inequality on gender inclusion are provided. Among others, policy makers should work towards improving conditions for mobile money innovations. They should also be aware that reducing both income inequality and enhancing mobile money innovations simultaneously leads to more inclusive outcomes in terms of gender inclusion.
Subjects: 
Financial inclusion
inequality
mobile phones
sub-Saharan Africa
women
JEL: 
G20
O40
I10
I20
I32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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