Vanessa S Tchamyou
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4155786 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Vanessa S Tchamyou |
| NOMBRES | Vanessa S |
| APELLIDO | Tchamyou |
| FIRMA | TCHAMYOU V S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5977-1163 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Women’s empowerment and under-five mortality in Cameroon
Purpose Under-five mortality remains a significant challenge in Cameroon, despite ongoing efforts to enhance child health in developing nations. This study examines the impact of women’s empowerment on reducing under-five mortality, drawing on data from the fifth round of the Cameroonian Demographic and Health Survey. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts three indicators to represent distinct aspects of women’s empowerment: attitudes tow…
Towards Economic Resilience in Africa
This study focuses on two key objectives: first, to evaluate the unconditional effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic resilience in Africa and, second, to investigate the relevance of economic complexity in shaping the FDI–economic resilience nexus. The analysis is based on a panel of 34 African countries covering the years 2011–2023, employing the dynamic system generalised method of moments (GMM) and the bias‐corrected method of …
ICT diffusion, gender inclusion, and structural transformation in Africa
The Political Empowerment of Women and Industrialization in Africa
This study examines the effect of political empowerment of women on industrialization in Africa. The results, after controlling for cross‐sectional dependence, show that women's political implication causes industrialization. The fixed effects Driscoll/Kraay standard error and the GMM estimators reveal that women's political empowerment negatively affects industrialization. These negative effects are nullified by high economic freedom and high fe…
Banking concentration, information sharing and women's political empowerment in developing countries
Purpose This article analyses the effect of bank concentration on women's political empowerment in 80 developing countries over the period 2004–2020. Design/methodology/approach Banking concentration (BC) is measured by the assets held by the three largest commercial banks as a percentage of total commercial bank assets in a country. We use several indices to measure political empowerment, namely: the political empowerment index, composed of thre…
Gender economic inclusion and sustainable development in Africa
Purpose This study investigates how gender economic inclusion affects sustainable development in Africa. Design/methodology/approach The study is focused on 42 African countries for the period 2000–2019. It argues that enhancing gender economic inclusion in all sectors of society promotes and sets a better pace for the attainment of sustainable development in Africa. The gender economic inclusion variable used is the number of females employed as…
Effect of women’s political inclusion on the level of infrastructures in Africa
Mitigating the macroeconomic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa
This study evaluates the economic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa using the generalised synthetic control method. In other words, it assesses how gross domestic product (GDP) would have been affected, had severe natural disasters not occurred. Moreover, it explores the determinants of the destructiveness of the impact of natural disasters, focusing on the role played by capital. We find that severe natural disasters induce a signific…
Historical prevalence of infectious diseases and gender equality in 122 countries
Purpose This study aims to examine the effects of the historical prevalence of infectious diseases on contemporary gender equality. Previous studies reveal the persistence of the effects of historical diseases on innovation, through the channel of culture. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the parasite stress theory, the authors propose a framework which argues that historical prevalence of infectious disease reduces contemporary gender equa…
African Women Vulnerability Index
In this paper, we develop a new index labelled the African Women Vulnerability Index (AWVI) with a focus on rural women using Round 7 of the Afrobarometer Survey. The AWVI comprises 59 indicators in six dimensions, namely: safety, empowerment, health, education, economic prosperity, and digitalisation. Our findings show that: (i) Botswana performs best while women in Guinea and Sudan are the most vulnerable. Indeed, Mauritius appears as a good ex…
The synergy between governance and trade openness in promoting female economic inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
The African Continental Free Trade Area and Financial Development for Female Labour Force Participation in Africa
The study assesses how financial development dynamics can moderate the incidence of African trade integration on female labour force participation. The focus is on 47 African countries for the period 1995 to 2019 and the empirical evidence is based on Fixed Effects regressions. The findings show that financial development moderates African trade integration to engender an overall positive effect on female labour force participation. Moreover, fin…
Gender, political inclusion, and democracy in Africa
The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the analyses through ordinary least squares, system generalized method of moments, IV Tobit and instrumental variables two stage least squares show that gender political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa. This result is robust across alternative specifications of political inclusion and democracy. The results equally stood when …
The Macroeconomic Influence of Recent Political Conflicts in Africa
This paper measures the macroeconomic influence of recent political crisis, protest and uprisings in Africa with the generalized synthetic control method and evaluates the role played by natural resource dependence on the modulation of the nexus. We find that political crisis, protests and uprisings have a significant and negative nexus with economic growth while the nexus is positive with investment and price level. For economic growth, the devi…
Finance, Institutions and Private Investment in Africa
Financial access, governance and the persistence of inequality in Africa
The aim of this paper is to investigate policy instruments by which the persistence of inequality is affected by financial development channels in 48 African countries for the period of 1996–2014. Financial dynamic channels of depth, efficiency, activity and stability are used. Political, economic and institutional governance policy instruments are also involved. The empirical evidence is based on the generalised method of moments. The results sh…
Social media for health promotion
The Role of Information Sharing in Modulating the Effect of Financial Access on Inequality
This study examines the role of information sharing in modulating the effect of financial access on income inequality in 48 African countries for the period 2004–2014. Information sharing is proxied with private credit bureaus and public credit registries. All dynamics of financial development are taken into account, namely: depth (money supply and liquid liabilities), efficiency (at banking and financial system levels), activity (from banking an…
The Role of ICT in Modulating the Effect of Education and Lifelong Learning on Income Inequality and Economic Growth in Africa
This study assesses the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality and economic growth. It focuses on a sample of 48 African countries from 2004 to 2014. The empirical evidence is based on the generalized method of moments. The following findings are established. First, mobile phone and internet each interact with primary school education to decrease in…
Inequality, ICT and financial access in Africa
Fighting terrorism in Africa when existing terrorism levels matter
This study examines policy tools in the fight against terrorism when existing levels of terrorism matter in 53 African countries for the period 1998–2012. The empirical evidence is based on contemporary, non-contemporary and Instrumental Variable Quantile regressions (QR) which enable the investigation throughout the conditional distributions of domestic, transnational and total terrorism dynamics. The following findings are established. First, c…
Information asymmetry and market power in the African banking industry
Education, lifelong learning, inequality and financial access
This study investigates the role of financial access in modulating the effect of education and lifelong learning on inequality in 48 African countries for the period 1996–2014. Lifelong learning is conceived and measured as the combined knowledge gained from primary through tertiary education while the three educational indicators are: primary school enrolment; secondary school enrolment and tertiary school enrolment. Financial development dynami…
Human capital, knowledge creation, knowledge diffusion, institutions and economic incentives
This article compares African countries to South Korea in terms of knowledge economy (KE). Emphasis is laid on human capital, knowledge creation, knowledge diffusion, institutions and economic incentives. The analytical approach consists of providing KE catch-up strategies that can be understood within the context of country-specific gaps between the frontier country in KE and laggard African countries. The empirical evidence is based on sigma co…
The Comparative African Economics of Governance in Fighting Terrorism
Education, lifelong learning, inequality and financial access
This study investigates the role of financial access in modulating the effect of education and lifelong learning on inequality in 48 African countries for the period 1996–2014. Lifelong learning is conceived and measured as the combined knowledge gained from primary through tertiary education while the three educational indicators are: primary school enrolment; secondary school enrolment and tertiary school enrolment. Financial development dynami…
Financial access, governance and the persistence of inequality in Africa
The aim of this paper is to investigate policy instruments by which the persistence of inequality is affected by financial development channels in 48 African countries for the period of 1996–2014. Financial dynamic channels of depth, efficiency, activity and stability are used. Political, economic and institutional governance policy instruments are also involved. The empirical evidence is based on the generalised method of moments. The results sh…
Human capital, knowledge creation, knowledge diffusion, institutions and economic incentives
This article compares African countries to South Korea in terms of knowledge economy (KE). Emphasis is laid on human capital, knowledge creation, knowledge diffusion, institutions and economic incentives. The analytical approach consists of providing KE catch-up strategies that can be understood within the context of country-specific gaps between the frontier country in KE and laggard African countries. The empirical evidence is based on sigma co…
The synergy between governance and trade openness in promoting female economic inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
Gender, political inclusion, and democracy in Africa
The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the analyses through ordinary least squares, system generalized method of moments, IV Tobit and instrumental variables two stage least squares show that gender political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa. This result is robust across alternative specifications of political inclusion and democracy. The results equally stood when …
Social media for health promotion
The African Continental Free Trade Area and Financial Development for Female Labour Force Participation in Africa
The study assesses how financial development dynamics can moderate the incidence of African trade integration on female labour force participation. The focus is on 47 African countries for the period 1995 to 2019 and the empirical evidence is based on Fixed Effects regressions. The findings show that financial development moderates African trade integration to engender an overall positive effect on female labour force participation. Moreover, fin…
The Comparative African Economics of Governance in Fighting Terrorism
ICT diffusion, gender inclusion, and structural transformation in Africa
Finance, Institutions and Private Investment in Africa
Fighting terrorism in Africa when existing terrorism levels matter
This study examines policy tools in the fight against terrorism when existing levels of terrorism matter in 53 African countries for the period 1998–2012. The empirical evidence is based on contemporary, non-contemporary and Instrumental Variable Quantile regressions (QR) which enable the investigation throughout the conditional distributions of domestic, transnational and total terrorism dynamics. The following findings are established. First, c…
Information Sharing and Financial Sector Development in Africa
This study investigates the effect information sharing has on financial sector development in 53 African countries for the period 2004 to 2011. Information sharing is measured with private credit bureaus and public credit registries. Hitherto unexplored dimensions of financial sector development are employed, namely: financial sector dynamics of formalization, informalization, and non-formalization. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Lea…
The Role of Knowledge Economy in African Business
Information asymmetry and market power in the African banking industry
Education, lifelong learning, inequality and financial access
This study investigates the role of financial access in modulating the effect of education and lifelong learning on inequality in 48 African countries for the period 1996–2014. Lifelong learning is conceived and measured as the combined knowledge gained from primary through tertiary education while the three educational indicators are: primary school enrolment; secondary school enrolment and tertiary school enrolment. Financial development dynami…
Human capital, knowledge creation, knowledge diffusion, institutions and economic incentives
This article compares African countries to South Korea in terms of knowledge economy (KE). Emphasis is laid on human capital, knowledge creation, knowledge diffusion, institutions and economic incentives. The analytical approach consists of providing KE catch-up strategies that can be understood within the context of country-specific gaps between the frontier country in KE and laggard African countries. The empirical evidence is based on sigma co…
The Comparative African Economics of Governance in Fighting Terrorism
The Role of Information Sharing in Modulating the Effect of Financial Access on Inequality
This study examines the role of information sharing in modulating the effect of financial access on income inequality in 48 African countries for the period 2004–2014. Information sharing is proxied with private credit bureaus and public credit registries. All dynamics of financial development are taken into account, namely: depth (money supply and liquid liabilities), efficiency (at banking and financial system levels), activity (from banking an…
The Role of ICT in Modulating the Effect of Education and Lifelong Learning on Income Inequality and Economic Growth in Africa
This study assesses the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality and economic growth. It focuses on a sample of 48 African countries from 2004 to 2014. The empirical evidence is based on the generalized method of moments. The following findings are established. First, mobile phone and internet each interact with primary school education to decrease in…
Inequality, ICT and financial access in Africa
Fighting terrorism in Africa when existing terrorism levels matter
This study examines policy tools in the fight against terrorism when existing levels of terrorism matter in 53 African countries for the period 1998–2012. The empirical evidence is based on contemporary, non-contemporary and Instrumental Variable Quantile regressions (QR) which enable the investigation throughout the conditional distributions of domestic, transnational and total terrorism dynamics. The following findings are established. First, c…
Finance, Institutions and Private Investment in Africa
Financial access, governance and the persistence of inequality in Africa
The aim of this paper is to investigate policy instruments by which the persistence of inequality is affected by financial development channels in 48 African countries for the period of 1996–2014. Financial dynamic channels of depth, efficiency, activity and stability are used. Political, economic and institutional governance policy instruments are also involved. The empirical evidence is based on the generalised method of moments. The results sh…
Social media for health promotion
Gender, political inclusion, and democracy in Africa
The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the analyses through ordinary least squares, system generalized method of moments, IV Tobit and instrumental variables two stage least squares show that gender political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa. This result is robust across alternative specifications of political inclusion and democracy. The results equally stood when …
The Macroeconomic Influence of Recent Political Conflicts in Africa
This paper measures the macroeconomic influence of recent political crisis, protest and uprisings in Africa with the generalized synthetic control method and evaluates the role played by natural resource dependence on the modulation of the nexus. We find that political crisis, protests and uprisings have a significant and negative nexus with economic growth while the nexus is positive with investment and price level. For economic growth, the devi…
African Women Vulnerability Index
In this paper, we develop a new index labelled the African Women Vulnerability Index (AWVI) with a focus on rural women using Round 7 of the Afrobarometer Survey. The AWVI comprises 59 indicators in six dimensions, namely: safety, empowerment, health, education, economic prosperity, and digitalisation. Our findings show that: (i) Botswana performs best while women in Guinea and Sudan are the most vulnerable. Indeed, Mauritius appears as a good ex…
The synergy between governance and trade openness in promoting female economic inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
The African Continental Free Trade Area and Financial Development for Female Labour Force Participation in Africa
The study assesses how financial development dynamics can moderate the incidence of African trade integration on female labour force participation. The focus is on 47 African countries for the period 1995 to 2019 and the empirical evidence is based on Fixed Effects regressions. The findings show that financial development moderates African trade integration to engender an overall positive effect on female labour force participation. Moreover, fin…
Effect of women’s political inclusion on the level of infrastructures in Africa
Mitigating the macroeconomic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa
This study evaluates the economic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa using the generalised synthetic control method. In other words, it assesses how gross domestic product (GDP) would have been affected, had severe natural disasters not occurred. Moreover, it explores the determinants of the destructiveness of the impact of natural disasters, focusing on the role played by capital. We find that severe natural disasters induce a signific…
Historical prevalence of infectious diseases and gender equality in 122 countries
Purpose This study aims to examine the effects of the historical prevalence of infectious diseases on contemporary gender equality. Previous studies reveal the persistence of the effects of historical diseases on innovation, through the channel of culture. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the parasite stress theory, the authors propose a framework which argues that historical prevalence of infectious disease reduces contemporary gender equa…
The Political Empowerment of Women and Industrialization in Africa
This study examines the effect of political empowerment of women on industrialization in Africa. The results, after controlling for cross‐sectional dependence, show that women's political implication causes industrialization. The fixed effects Driscoll/Kraay standard error and the GMM estimators reveal that women's political empowerment negatively affects industrialization. These negative effects are nullified by high economic freedom and high fe…
Banking concentration, information sharing and women's political empowerment in developing countries
Purpose This article analyses the effect of bank concentration on women's political empowerment in 80 developing countries over the period 2004–2020. Design/methodology/approach Banking concentration (BC) is measured by the assets held by the three largest commercial banks as a percentage of total commercial bank assets in a country. We use several indices to measure political empowerment, namely: the political empowerment index, composed of thre…
Gender economic inclusion and sustainable development in Africa
Purpose This study investigates how gender economic inclusion affects sustainable development in Africa. Design/methodology/approach The study is focused on 42 African countries for the period 2000–2019. It argues that enhancing gender economic inclusion in all sectors of society promotes and sets a better pace for the attainment of sustainable development in Africa. The gender economic inclusion variable used is the number of females employed as…
Women’s empowerment and under-five mortality in Cameroon
Purpose Under-five mortality remains a significant challenge in Cameroon, despite ongoing efforts to enhance child health in developing nations. This study examines the impact of women’s empowerment on reducing under-five mortality, drawing on data from the fifth round of the Cameroonian Demographic and Health Survey. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts three indicators to represent distinct aspects of women’s empowerment: attitudes tow…
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