Table of contents - Special Issue: Financial services in Africa
Guest Editors: Daniel Makina
Introduction to the financial services in Africa special issue
Daniel MakinaThe purpose of this paper is to explore the landscape of financial services in Africa through the prism of a selection of research papers.
What determines financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Sydney ChikalipahThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of financial inclusion (FI) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Account ownership and use of financial services among individuals: Evidence from selected Sub-Saharan African economies
Letenah Ejigu Wale, Daniel MakinaThe purpose of this paper is to understand the effect of individual characteristics (such as sex, age, education and income) on the likelihood of account ownership and use in…
Predicting user continuance intention towards M-pesa in Kenya
Olam Osah, Michael KyobeThe purpose of this paper is to integrate established information systems theories (post-acceptance model (PAM) and task-technology fit (TTF)) to model and test determinants of…
Does access to credit improve household welfare? Evidence from Ethiopia using endogenous regime switching regression
Temesgen Fitamo Bocher, Bamlaku Alamirew Alemu, Zerihun Getachew KelboreThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how credit access affects the welfare of households and sheds light on how household characteristics influence the decision to take…
African innovations in harnessing farmer assets as collateral
Tendayi Chapoto, Anthony Q.Q. AboagyeThe purpose of this paper is to document and appraise two innovations by which nontraditional forms of collateral are being used to make smallholder crop and livestock farmers…
Macroeconomic determinants of interest rate spreads in Ghana
Samuel Kwabena Obeng, Daniel SakyiThe purpose of this paper is to examine macroeconomic determinants of interest rate spreads in Ghana for the period 1980-2013.
Foreign exchange markets and the purchasing power parity theory: Evidence from two Southern African countries
Bernard Njindan Iyke, Nicholas M. OdhiamboThe purpose of this paper is to examine the validity of the purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis for two Southern African countries, namely: Lesotho and Zambia.
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof John Kuada