Transforming unemployed women to self-employed women: the role of mobile money innovations in sub-Saharan Africa

Simplice Asongu

Development Finance Agenda, 2023, vol. 8, issue 6, 14-15

Abstract: The politico-economic involvement of women in many walks of life is important in the achievement of most poverty and inequality oriented sustainable development goals (SDGs). Moreover, the prevailing policy issues are more apparent in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in the light of the documented issues related to gender exclusion, poverty and income inequality. In the light of the extant literature on the subject, in 2019 the SSA region outpaced the Asian region to become the region in the world with the highest number of poor in the world (Nwani & Osuji, 2020). Moreover, consistent with the attendant literature, the sub-region is also characterized by one of the highest rates of income inequality in the world (Asongu et al., 2020, 2021; Asongu & Odhiambo, 2022). It is also important to emphasize that the sub-region of SSA is the region in the world in which women are most excluded from socio-economic activities (Ngono, 2021; Asongu & le Roux, 2023; Yeyouomo et al., 2023).

Date: 2023
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