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

Fayçal Sawadogo and Abdoul-Akim Wandaogo

Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 199, issue C

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: Mobile money; Goods trade; Impact analysis; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 O23 O33 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109681

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