The African Continental Free Trade Area and Financial Development for Female Labour Force Participation in Africa

Vanessa S. Tchamyou, Juste Somé and Simplice Asongu

Forum for Social Economics, 2025, vol. 54, issue 2, 189-205

Abstract: The study assesses how financial development dynamics can moderate the incidence of African trade integration on female labour force participation. The focus is on 47 African countries for the period 1995 to 2019 and the empirical evidence is based on Fixed Effects regressions. The findings show that financial development moderates African trade integration to engender an overall positive effect on female labour force participation. Moreover, financial depth proxied by liquid liabilities should reach a threshold of approximately 14.304 (% of GDP) in order to completely dampen an initial negative incidence of intra-African trade integration on female labor force participation. It follows that financial development becomes a necessary and sufficient condition to moderate intra-African trade integration in order to positively affect female labor force participation only when the established threshold of financial depth is attained. Other policy implications are discussed.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/07360932.2023.2297169

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