Comparative human development thresholds for absolute and relative pro-poor mobile banking in developing countries

Abstract

We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality

Mobile banking usage, quality of growth, inequality and poverty in developing countries

“…Documented channels by which mobile telephony service would empower women have included: household management and small business consolidation (Asongu & Nwachukwu, 2016a, 2018. Consistent with Jonathan and Camilo (2008), Ondiege (2010Ondiege ( , 2013 and Asongu (2015), mobile phones mitigate the gender-finance gap and provide an enabling environment for timely responses to poverty-linked shocks.…”

“…Structural change entails globalisation (e.g. financial globalisation or FDI), human capital and macroeconomic stability (Asongu & Nwachukwu, 2018). Other macroeconomic and structural characteristics needed for growth are stable inflation and low negative output volatility (Dollar & Kraay, 2003;Barro & Lee, 2010), financial access (Levine, 2005), infrastructural development (Calderon & Servén, 2004;Seneviratne & Sun, 2013); improvement of value chains (Hausmann et al, 2007;Anand, et al, 2012) and modernization of production (Mishra et al, 2011).…”

Quality of Growth Empirics: Comparative Gaps, Benchmarking and Policy Syndromes

“…The deep concerns that matter to us are the practical questions highlighted in the introduction. The positioning of the inquiry steers clear of recent policy studies on inclusive human development literature which have focused on, inter alia: employment protection and wage inequality (Perugini & Pompei, 2016); perspectives on inclusive and sustainable development in emerging markets (Stiglitz, 2016); economic inequality and optimal redistribution through taxation (Yunker, 2016); the relationship between poverty and deprivation (Renuka & VietNgu, 2016); the redistributive effect of regulation in developing countries (Atsu & Adams, 2015); gender equality (Baliamoune-Lutz & McGillivray, 2009;Anyanwu, 2013a;Elu & Loubert, 2013;Baliamoune-Lutz, 2007;Anyanwu, 2014a), rural-urban inequality (Baliamoune-Lutz & Lutz, 2005), poverty relationships (Anyanwu, 2013b(Anyanwu, , 2014b, nexuses between finance, growth, employment and poverty (Odhiambo, 2009(Odhiambo, , 2011, the relevance of financial development in poverty reduction (Odhiambo, , 2010b(Odhiambo, , 2013 and linkages between human development, information technology and mobile banking in inclusive development (Asongu & Nwachukwu, 2017;Asongu & Le Roux, 2017).…”

Comparative determinants of quality of growth in developing countries

“…Recent inclusive growth literature has focused on, inter alia: gender inequality (Anyanwu, 2014a(Anyanwu, , 2013aBaliamoune-Lutz, 2007;Baliamoune-Lutz, 2007& McGillivray, 2009Elu & Loubert, 2013), relationships between finance, growth, employment and poverty (Odhiambo, 2009(Odhiambo, , 2011, the role of finance in poverty eradication (Odhiambo, , 2010b(Odhiambo, , 2013Asongu & Nwachukwu, 2017b, 2017c, linkages between mobile banking, human development and information technology in inclusive development (Asongu & Nwachukwu, 2017c;Asongu & Le Roux, 2017), correlates of poverty (Anyanwu, 2014b(Anyanwu, , 2013b, debates over absolute pro-poor (Ravallion & Chen, 2003) versus relative pro-poor growth (Dollar & Kraay, 2002) and measurements and determinants of inclusive growth (Anand et al, 2013;Mlachila et al, 2014). The last strand is closest to the present inquiry which assesses determinants of inclusive growth in developing countries.…”