Does mobile money services adoption foster intra-African goods trade?

Fayçal Sawadogo () and Abdoul-Akim Wandaogo ()
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Fayçal Sawadogo: CERDI - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne
Abdoul-Akim Wandaogo: CERDI - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne

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Abstract: Using a propensity score matching methodology, we study the causal effect of mobile money services adoption on intra-African goods trade. We find that countries that adopted MM register a higher goods trade share in GDP of about 0.6 percent in comparison to non-adopters.

Keywords: JEL classification : F10; O23; O33; O55 Mobile money; Goods trade; Impact analysis; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-fdg, nep-int, nep-mfd, nep-mon and nep-pay
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Published in Economics Letters, 2021, 199, pp.109681. ⟨10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109681⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109681

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