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Analyzing the effect of digital financial Technologies usage on Female-Owned Business Performance in Nigeria

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The crux of this paper was to investigate the extent as well as whether digital finance technologies affect business performance of female owned businesses in Lagos State, Nigeria. This paper empirically examined the effect of digital finance technologies usage among female owned business performance in Lagos state, Nigeria. By looking at female owned enterprises that deal with agribusiness with special interest in aqua foods to build an econometric model to test the hypothesis. Descriptive statistics and Ordinary Least Square was used in the analysis of data collected through structured questionnaire. The study employed Multistage sampling in selecting the respondents from the study areas. Majority of the Female-Owned Business owners in the study area are still in their adulthood age and agile to work. The result showed that Majority (73.33%) of the respondents were High adopters while only 26.67% of the Female-Owned Business owners were Low adopters. POS users has the highest percentage of the high adopters followed by ATM. The implication is that mobile banking adoption level of the respondent was lower compared to all other technological innovations adopted by Female-Owned Business owners in the study area. The result of the OLS shows that only mobile banking and POS have significant effect on the performance of Female-Owned Business owners in the study area at P

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  • Anifowose, Oladotun Larry, 2025. "Analyzing the effect of digital financial Technologies usage on Female-Owned Business Performance in Nigeria," MPRA Paper 124325, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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