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

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  • Fayçal Sawadogo

    (CERDI - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne)

  • Abdoul-Akim Wandaogo

    (CERDI - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne)

Abstract

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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  • Fayçal Sawadogo & Abdoul-Akim Wandaogo, 2021. "Does mobile money services adoption foster intra-African goods trade?," Post-Print hal-03620202, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03620202
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109681
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    1. Yacouba COULIBALY & Alexandru MINEA & Patrick VILLIEU, 2022. "How Do Natural Resource – Backed Loans Affect the Public Debt Sustainability in Developing Countries? Empirical Evidence," LEO Working Papers / DR LEO 2937, Orleans Economics Laboratory / Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orleans (LEO), University of Orleans.
    2. Isaac Appiah-Otoo & Na Song, 2021. "The Impact of Fintech on Poverty Reduction: Evidence from China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(9), pages 1-13, May.

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    Keywords

    JEL classification : F10; O23; O33; O55 Mobile money; Goods trade; Impact analysis; Africa;
    All these keywords.

    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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