Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149968 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/16/044
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
This study investigates the role of mobile phones in governance for doing business in Sub-Saharan Africa with data from the period 2000-2012 by employing the Generalised Method of Moments. Three broad concepts of governance are explored, namely: (i) political (comprising voice & accountability and political stability/no violence), (ii) economic (involving government effectiveness and regulation quality) and (iii) institutional (including corruption-control and rule of law). Ten dimensions of entrepreneurship are considered. Two main findings are established with respect to the net effects of the interaction between mobile phones and governance dynamics. They are (1) reduced cost of business start-up procedure, the time to build a warehouse and the time to resolve an insolvency; (2) increased start-up procedure to register a business; the time to enforce a contract; the time to register a property and time to prepare and pay taxes. Implications for theory and policy are discussed.
Subjects: 
Entrepreneurship
Knowledge Economy
Development
Africa
JEL: 
L59
L98
O10
O30
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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