Mobile phones, Institutional Quality and Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa

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This study investigates the role of mobile phones in governance for doing business in Sub-Saharan Africa with data from the period 2000-2012 by employing the Generalised Method of Moments. Three broad concepts of governance are explored, namely: (i) political (comprising voice & accountability and political stability/no violence), (ii) economic (involving government effectiveness and regulation quality) and (iii) institutional (including corruption-control and rule of law). Ten dimensions of entrepreneurship are considered. Two main findings are established with respect to the net effects of the interaction between mobile phones and governance dynamics. They are (1) reduced cost of business start-up procedure, the time to build a warehouse and the time to resolve an insolvency; (2) increased start-up procedure to register a business; the time to enforce a contract; the time to register a property and time to prepare and pay taxes. Implications for theory and policy are discussed.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: AGDI Working Paper ; No. WP/16/044

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Regulation and Industrial Policy: Other ; Industry Studies: Utilities and Transportation: Government Policy ; Economic Development: General ; Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General ; Economywide Country Studies: Africa
• Subject: Entrepreneurship ; Knowledge Economy ; Development ; Africa

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Asongu, Simplice ; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)
• (where): Yaoundé
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/149968
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET