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Does mobile money services adoption foster intra-African goods trade?

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  • Sawadogo, Fayçal
  • Wandaogo, Abdoul-Akim

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Using a propensity score matching methodology, we study the causal effect of mobile money services adoption on intra-African goods trade. We find that countries that adopted MM register a higher goods trade share in GDP of about 0.6 percent in comparison to non-adopters.

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  • Sawadogo, Fayçal & Wandaogo, Abdoul-Akim, 2021. "Does mobile money services adoption foster intra-African goods trade?," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 199(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:199:y:2021:i:c:s0165176520304419
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109681
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    Keywords

    Mobile money; Goods trade; Impact analysis; Africa;
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    JEL classification:

    • F10 - International Economics - - Trade - - - General
    • O23 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Development
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa

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