Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/244161 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/20/089
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
The study has investigated the comparative importance of financial access in promoting gender inclusion in African countries. Gender inclusion is proxied by the female labour participation rate while financial channels include: financial system deposits and private domestic credit. The empirical evidence is based on non-contemporary Fixed Effects regressions. In order to provide more implications on comparative relevance, the dataset is categorised into income levels (middle income versus (vs.) low income); legal origins (French civil law vs. English common law); religious domination (Islam vs. Christianity); openness to sea (coastal vs. landlocked); resource-wealth (oil-poor vs. oil-rich) and political stability (stable vs. unstable). Six main hypotheses are tested, notably, that middle income, English common law, Christianity, coastal, oil-rich and stable countries enjoy better levels of "financial access"-induced gender inclusion compared to respectively, low income, French civil law, Islam, landlocked, oil-poor and unstable countries. All six tested hypothesis are validated. This is the first study on the comparative importance of financial access in gender economic participation.
Subjects: 
Inequality
Gender Inclusion
Financial development
Africa
JEL: 
I30
L96
O16
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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