The role of governance in mobile phones for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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| Institution: | 1. African Governance and Development Institute, P.O.Box 8413, Yaoundé, Cameroon;2. Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting, Faculty of Business, Environment and Society, Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5DH, UK;1. African Governance and Development Institute, P.O. Box 8413, Yaoundé, Cameroon;2. Department of Economics, University of South Africa, P.O. Box 392, UNISA 0003, Pretoria, South Africa;3. School of Economics, Finance and Accounting, Faculty of Business and Law, Coventry University Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK;1. Dept. of Law, Economics, Accounting & Risk, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK;2. African Governance and Development Institute, Yaoundé, Cameroon;3. Department of Economics & Development Studies, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria;4. Development Finance Centre, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa;5. The Birmingham Business School, The University Birmingham, UK;6. Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium;1. African Governance and Development Institute, P.O. Box 8413, Yaoundé, Cameroon;2. Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting, Faculty of Business, Environment and Society, Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5DH, UK;1. School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China;2. Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China;3. Collaborative Innovation Centre of Electric Vehicles in Beijing, Beijing, 100081, China;4. Sustainable Development Research Institute for Economy and Society of Beijing, Beijing, 100081, China;1. Federal Urdu University, Pakistan;2. University of Lincoln, UK;3. Middlesex University Business School, UK |
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| Abstract: | This study assesses the synergy effects of governance in mobile phone penetration for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa with data for the period 2000–2012. It employs a battery of interactive estimation techniques, namely: Fixed effects, Generalised Method of Moments and Tobit regressions. Concepts of political (voice and accountability and political stability/no violence), economic (government effectiveness and regulation quality) and institutional (corruption-control and rule of law) governance are employed. The following findings are established. The previously apparent positive correlation between mobile phones and inclusive development can be extended to a positive effect. Although political governance is overwhelmingly not significant across estimated models, the average effects from economic governance are higher relative to institutional governance. On the interactions between mobile phones and governance variables, while none are apparent in Fixed effects regressions, there are significant synergy effects in Generalised Method of Moments and Tobit estimations, notably, from: regulation quality in the former and political stability, voice and accountability and rule of law in the latter. There is consistent evidence of convergence in inclusive human development. Policy implications are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Mobile phones Governance Inclusive human development |
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