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Remittances and Income Inequality in Africa: Financial Development Thresholds for Economic Policy
The study employs macrodata on 42 African countries to examine whether remittances and financial development (including the sub-components of access, depth and efficiency) contribute to the equalisation of incomes across the continent. Robust evidence from the dynamic GMM estimator shows that: (i) remittances heighten income inequality in Africa, (ii) Africa's financial system is not potent enough for repacking remittances towards the equalisation of incomes, and (iii) vis-à-vis financial access and depth, inefficiencies characterising Africa's financial institution is the main reason remittances contribute to the widening of the income disparity gap. Nonetheless, the optimism which we provide by way of threshold analysis shows that channelling efforts into the development of Africa's financial sector could yield shared income distribution dividends. In particular, efforts should be made to achieve a minimum of 23.05 per cent of financial access, and 3.02 per cent for that of efficiency of financial institutions if Africa's financial sector is to repackage external finance towards the equalisation of incomes. A few policy recommendations are provided in the end.
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Englisch
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
International Migration
Remittances
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Africa; Oceania
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Economywide Country Studies: Africa
- Thema
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Africa
Financial Development
Financial Sector Efficiency
Income Inequality
Remittances
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Ofori, Isaac K.
Gbolonyo, Emmanuel
Dossou, Marcel A.
Nkrumah, Richard K.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
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Kiel, Hamburg
- (wann)
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Preprint
Beteiligte
- Ofori, Isaac K.
- Gbolonyo, Emmanuel
- Dossou, Marcel A.
- Nkrumah, Richard K.
- ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
Entstanden
- 2022
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