The Mobile Phone Revolution: Have Mobile Phones and the Internet Reduced Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Kanyam, Daniel Akwasi; Kostandini, Genti; Ferreira, Susana

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.05.022

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“…On the other hand, the impact of mobile phones or mobile Internet on social development or individual well-being has also received extensive attention from scholars [19]. There is quite an extensive amount of literature showing that mobile phone and/or mobile Internet use can reduce corruption [54,55], improve institutional quality [56], affect individual social networks [57], increase search convenience [46,58], etc. However, other studies have also found that excessive use of mobile phones can cause "technostress", which has negative effects on users' mental and physical health and work efficiency [59][60][61].…”

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Does Mobile Phone Penetration Affect Divorce Rate? Evidence from China

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Marital happiness is an important symbol of social harmony and can help promote sustainable economic and social development. In recent years, the rapid rise of the divorce rate in China, a country where the divorce rate had previously been low, has attracted wide attention. However, few articles have focused on the popularization of information and communication technology's impact on China’s rising divorce rate in recent years. As a first attempt, the provincial panel data during the period 2001–2016 is applied to study quantitatively the relationship between mobile phone penetration and the divorce rate. In order to get more reliable estimation results, this paper uses two indicators to measure the divorce rate, and quantile regression is applied for further analysis. Additionally, one-year to five-year lag times of the mobile phone penetration are used as the core explanatory variables in order to analyse the lagging effect of mobile phone penetration on divorce rate. The result shows that the correlation between the mobile phone penetration and the divorce rate was statistically positive significant in China during the period 2001–2016. Furthermore, the paper also finds that mobile phone penetration had the greatest impact on divorce rate in central China, followed by eastern China, but it was not obvious in western China during this period. From a technological perspective, this paper provides some possible explanations for the rising divorce rate in China in recent years, and further enriches the relevant research on the impact of the development of information and communication technology on societal changes.

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Does Mobile Phone Penetration Affect Divorce Rate? Evidence from China

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“…The statistical results show that mobile phone penetration is a powerful instrument in terms of enhancing the efforts of anti-corruption. However, like Kanyam et al (2017), it is challenging for us to check the impact of mobile phones as a main determinant of corruption. To some extent, this study supports that mobile phone penetration, internet adoption and the interaction between these two variables play an important role in reducing corruption among Asian-Pacific countries.…”

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“…It has blocked the current web selection to create awareness among people about it. Kanyam, Daniel, and Susana (2017) observed that ICT systems have offered remarkable prospects for endorsing good governance, increasing transparency and reducing corruption. Thus, many development practitioners, such as policy makers, and copious global formations, who are dedicated for stimulating transparency and good governance.…”

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Impact of Internet Adoption and Mobile Phone Penetration on Corruption: Evidence from Selected Asia-Paciﬁc Countries

Shabbir

Saleem

Khan

2019

Global Business Review

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This study uses the mobile phone penetration as a tool of accountability against corruption and promotes transparency and good governance among selected Asia-Pacific countries. The consensus regarding fast internet speed plays a vital role to eliminate the corruption through modern informational and communication technology system. This study empirically investigates the causal relationship between internet adoption and mobile phone penetration to overcome the issue of corruption. This study adopted the Granger causality approach to analyse the panel data (2006–2016) for 12 countries. The results of Granger causality test did not find any evidence for bidirectional causality from corruption to mobile phone penetration and internet adoption. This shows that an increase in mobile phone penetration and internet adoption leads to decrease in corruption. The good governance and rule of law also found the powerful instruments to reduce the perceived corruption. This study is the first ever attempt to examine this issue for Asian Pacific countries, while other studies include only developing and advanced economies in their sample.

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“…De plus, la diffusion des téléphones au sein de la population augmenterait la probabilité de changement politique dans le pays en question (Stodden et Meier, 2009) 20 , mais également dans les pays voisins (Rhue et Sundararajan, 2011). Elle favoriserait également une baisse de la corruption dans le pays concerné (Kanyam et al, 2017 (Collier et Sambanis, 2002). Miguel, Satyanath et Sergenti (2004), Collier and Hoeffler (2000) ou encore Fearon and Laitin (2003) Inégalités sociales (i.e.…”

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The Mobile Phone Revolution: Have Mobile Phones and the Internet Reduced Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Cited by 55 publications

References 57 publications

Does Mobile Phone Penetration Affect Divorce Rate? Evidence from China

Does Mobile Phone Penetration Affect Divorce Rate? Evidence from China

Impact of Internet Adoption and Mobile Phone Penetration on Corruption: Evidence from Selected Asia-Paciﬁc Countries

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