Does ICT diffusion contribute to women's political empowerment in Africa?

Nkoa, Bruno Emmanuel Ongo; Song, Jacques Simon; Belomo, Marie Laure Onguene

doi:10.1111/1467-8268.12657

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“…The vector of control variables X is made up of: (i) GDP per capita growth (annual %), the increase of which enhances the resilience of economies to exogenous shocks through a better distribution of goods (Kalantaryan et al, 2022); (ii) human capital, approximated by the number of students enrolled in secondary school, accounting for the ability to acquire and internalize new technologies (Mainuddin et al, 2015); (iii) access to electricity, referring to the percentage of the total population with access to electricity (Ongo et al, 2022a); (iv) financial development, measured by the volume of financial resources provided to the private sector by financial institutions. It increases the availability of credit, reduces information asymmetry, and promotes remittances (Asongu et al, 2016); (v) Internet penetration, measured by the population's Internet subscription rate (Adalbert Abraham Ghislain, 2022; Ongo et al, 2022b). It facilitates domestic and international financial transactions (Ongo & Song, 2022).…”

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Does social media drive remittances in Africa?

Ongo Nkoa,

Song,

Ondoua Beyene

et al. 2023

African Development Review

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Social media in Africa has grown considerably over the past two decades and has fueled an extremely abundant literature. In this article, we examine their effects on remittances observed from a sample of 50 African countries. To achieve this, we specify and estimate a panel data model using the system generalized method of moments over the period 2009–2019. Our results show that social media, approximated by the Facebook penetration rate, increases remittances in Africa. Controlled by four complementary measures of social media (Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Twitter), our results remain stable and robust. We suggest a qualitative improvement in connectivity and the establishment of a traceability system to better control the volume and their orientation in the financing of productive economic activities.

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Does social media drive remittances in Africa?

Ongo Nkoa,

Song,

Ondoua Beyene

et al. 2023

African Development Review

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“…The key elements in the agenda for sustainable development include women's empowerment and gender equality which warrant the broadening of the range of opportunities to bridge the gender gap. The sustainable empowerment of women engulfs reducing inequality, and educational and financial inclusion as part of boosting the socioeconomic development processes (Tchamyou et al, 2019;Nkoa et al, 2022). Women work more unpaid hours in many nations, and they have fewer opportunities to use education and skills to escape poverty.…”

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Sustainable Socio-Economic Development of Women: A Blueprint from Vulnerability to Empowerment

Ayisha,

Abdul Latip

2023

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The major goals of women's empowerment are to improve earnings, the standard of living and to enable them to use the resources at their disposal to make decisions that will benefit their households and societies. As such, the socioeconomic empowerment of women is significantly captured in the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs of the United Nations UN. The purpose of the study is to look at women's education, capabilities, decision-making power, access to financial resources, control over household resources, and ability to mobilize for economic rights to enable them to participate in the economic life of the household and the community in a sustainable way. Considering the research questions and recent past publications, this systematic review included relevant literature on socioeconomic empowerment from 2015 onwards. Both direct and summative qualitative content analysis research approach is used. Google Scholar was used as a tool to acquire relevant data from the significant databases made available by Elsevier, Emerald, Sage, Tailor and Frances, Springers, and ProQuest among others. The review of relevant literature found that the importance of the sustainable socioeconomic empowerment of women makes it an essential development intervention and a constituent of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It also discovered the necessity of prioritizing women's safety when creating programs for socioeconomic empowerment and closely observing the possibility of conflict and violence within households. It revealed themes of socioeconomic empowerment intervention for women to include labour force participation, agro-based entrepreneurship, and financial inclusion. These interventions are geared toward the improvement of participation in leadership and decision-making for sustainable empowerment. Therefore, the study suggests conducting a case study to examine culturally appropriate tactics that can be most effective in giving women economic empowerment in the conventional cultural and economic framework that is dominated by men.

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“…However, the benefits of ICTs go beyond the economic aspects of growth, financial development or poverty. Indeed, Ongo Nkoa et al (2022) have shown that the high diffusion of ICTs in Africa over the past decades significantly improves women's political empowerment.…”

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Does the diffusion of information and communication technologies affect the shadow economy in Africa?

Ghislain

2022

African Development Review

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This paper aims to analyze the effect of information and communication technology (ICT) diffusion on the shadow economic activities in Africa for the period from 2000 to 2015. To this end, we use a panel data model on a sample of 48 countries. The results obtained show that the diffusion of ICTs, especially mobile telephony and the Internet, negatively and significantly affect the size of the shadow economy in Africa. The level of education, capital stock, economic growth, and financial development also contribute to reducing the size of the informal economy in Africa. However, our results suggest that informal activities are motivated by the abundance of natural resources and migrant remittances. Robustness checks are done through the system generalized method of moments and a change in the measurement of the shadow economy confirms the validity of the results. We recommend to decision-makers to implement public policies facilitating the access and the use of new telecommunications tools and services and to improve the institutional framework to encourage private economic agents to invest in formal activities.

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Does ICT diffusion contribute to women's political empowerment in Africa?

Cited by 12 publications

References 46 publications

Does social media drive remittances in Africa?

Does social media drive remittances in Africa?

Sustainable Socio-Economic Development of Women: A Blueprint from Vulnerability to Empowerment

Does the diffusion of information and communication technologies affect the shadow economy in Africa?

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