New causal evidence shows boosting African women's income and wealth increases fertility, particularly among women without a son, suggesting that this fertility increase is a means to safeguard long-term economic security.
How did adopting platform "interoperability" - a policy that promotes transactions and competition across operators - impact mobile money users in Africa?
High-speed internet connectivity in Africa increased FDI into the services sector with the technology, finance, retail and health service subsectors the main beneficiaries
High-speed internet enhances the role of banks in Africa by reducing telecommunication costs and fostering the banks’ adoption of new financial technologies, such as the real-time gross settlement (RTGS) payment system
Anti-corruption regulation against multinational corporations in developed countries can increase the local economic benefits of natural resource extraction for African communities