Establishment of mobile money corridors and Burkina Faso's intra-WAEMU trade

IF 6.4 2区管理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI:10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103000

Lamoussa Seydou Lankoande

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Abstract

Intra-African trade remains low, constituting an obstacle to the socio-economic development of the continent. This research looks at the potential influence of mobile money in West Africa on the region's internal trade, focusing specifically on the WAEMU. It thus examines the effect of the establishment of mobile money corridors between Burkina Faso and WAEMU countries on Burkina Faso's trade within the union. The research is based on the gravity model and on data relating to six partners of Burkina Faso in the WAEMU over the period 2000 to 2022. Results obtained using Hausman-Taylor (HT) and generalized least squares (GLS) methods argue that the establishment of mobile money corridors between WAEMU countries increases Burkina Faso's intra-WAEMU exports. The inclusion of political stability in the analyses and the use of the Poisson pseudo-maximum-likelihood (PPML) and propensity score matching (PSM) method corroborate the results. From a broad perspective, these results suggest that the development of mobile money corridors between African countries could play a key role in increasing intra-African trade.

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建立移动货币走廊和布基纳法索的西非货币联盟内部贸易

非洲内部贸易仍然很低，对非洲大陆的社会经济发展构成障碍。本研究着眼于西非移动货币对该地区内部贸易的潜在影响，特别关注西非货币联盟。因此，它审查了在布基纳法索和西非货币联盟国家之间建立移动货币走廊对布基纳法索在联盟内贸易的影响。这项研究是基于重力模型和2000年至2022年期间布基纳法索在西非货币联盟的六个合作伙伴的数据。使用Hausman-Taylor （HT）和广义最小二乘（GLS）方法获得的结果表明，在西非货币联盟国家之间建立移动货币走廊增加了布基纳法索在西非货币联盟内部的出口。在分析中纳入政治稳定性以及使用泊松伪最大似然（PPML）和倾向得分匹配（PSM）方法证实了结果。从广泛的角度来看，这些结果表明，非洲国家之间移动货币走廊的发展可以在增加非洲内部贸易方面发挥关键作用。

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Telecommunications Policy 工程技术-电信学

CiteScore

10.80

自引率

12.50%

发文量

122

审稿时长

38 days

期刊介绍： Telecommunications Policy is concerned with the impact of digitalization in the economy and society. The journal is multidisciplinary, encompassing conceptual, theoretical and empirical studies, quantitative as well as qualitative. The scope includes policy, regulation, and governance; big data, artificial intelligence and data science; new and traditional sectors encompassing new media and the platform economy; management, entrepreneurship, innovation and use. Contributions may explore these topics at national, regional and international levels, including issues confronting both developed and developing countries. The papers accepted by the journal meet high standards of analytical rigor and policy relevance.