George Tweneboah

Biographic Data

ID6386403
NAMEGeorge Tweneboah
GIVEN NAMESGeorge
FAMILY NAMETweneboah
SIGNATURETWENEBOAH G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ORCID0000-0001-7992-7340
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • FinTech and financial inclusion in emerging and developing economies: A system GMM model

    Open AccessMotlanalo Mashoene, George Tweneboah et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2025

    This study explores the role of financial technology (FinTech) in promoting financial inclusion across 28 emerging and developing economies (EMDEs) from 2011 to 2021. While financial inclusion has been widely studied, limited research focuses on the concurrent impact of FinTech on financial access in multiple EMDEs. Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), a new financial inclusion index was constructed, incorporating two dimensions: access and …

  • Government size and output volatility in Sub-Saharan African Countries: Do threshold levels exist

    Open AccessKhethang Mokoena, George TweneboahARTICLECogent Social Sciences2025

    This study aimed to examine the threshold effects of government size on output volatility using a panel of 22 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries spanning over the 1997–2021 period. Hansen’s threshold methodology was used to estimate threshold levels of government size on output volatility. The findings show that there is a threshold value of government size on output volatility in SSA countries. The study further reveals that government size bel…

  • Threshold Effect of Financial Inclusion on Poverty Reduction in Africa: Does institutional quality play a role

    Anthony Yaw Nsiah, George TweneboahARTICLEJournal of African Business2025

    In Africa, poverty levels are still very high, especially with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite efforts by governments and development partners to address it. Financial inclusion has been identified as an important concept in fighting poverty due to its ability to increase the income level of households. This study sought to estimate the threshold level at which financial inclusion, aided by strong institutions, will lead to poverty r…

  • Government interventions and stock market performance during Covid-19 pandemic: Empirical evidence from Ghana

    Open AccessIddriss Askandir, Eric Amoo Bondzie et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2024

    the cOVid-19 pandemic that broke out in late 2019 ushered in a rare era of global uncertainty that tested the resilience of financial and economic systems.countries tried to implement stringent public health regulations to stop the virus's rapid spread, frequently at the expense of economic activity.We contribute to the existing body of knowledge by providing a detailed analysis of the distinct effects of government initiatives during the cOVid-1…

  • Revisiting stock market development and growth analysis in Ecowas: A disaggregated analysis of institutional quality as mediating variable

    Open AccessRichard Eshun, George TweneboahARTICLECogent Social Sciences2024

    This study assessed whether the relationship between stock market development and economic growth in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is conditioned by institutional quality.Empirical estimations to substantiate the mediating role of disaggregated institutional quality variables in the stock market development

  • Determinants of Financial Inclusion in Africa: Is Institutional Quality Relevant

    Open AccessAnthony Yaw Nsiah, George TweneboahARTICLECogent Social Sciences2023

    Financial inclusion is seen as an enabler to growth in an economy, especially in developing regions like Africa. Despite the importance of financial inclusion, many factors play a role in one’s decision to get involved in the financial sector. This paper therefore examined the determinants of financial inclusion in Africa, considering both demand and supply as well as infrastructure side factors using General Method of Moments (GMM) and the Ordin…

  • Integration of macroeconomic fundamentals in the West African Monetary Zone: A multi scale perspective

    Open AccessGeorge Tweneboah, Richard EshunARTICLECogent Social Sciences2023

    A recently developed wavelet multiple correlations and cross correlations based on the maximal overlap discrete wavelet transform by Fernández-Macho is employed to analyse the interdependence of macroeconomic fundamentals among countries within the West African Monetary Zone for data from January 2000 to December 2018. We establish that the nature of interdependence among exchange rates, inflation, and interest rates vary across the countries. We…

  • On Exchange Rate Predictability and Adaptive Market Hypothesis in South Africa

    George Tweneboah, Michael Effah Asamoah et al.ARTICLEJournal of African Business2022

    This study sets out to explore the predictability of global foreign exchange rates vis-à-vis the South African rand using daily nominal exchange rates from January 2010 to February 2018. The estimation techniques include automatic portmanteau test, wild bootstrap variance ratio test, Dominguez–Lobato test for martingale difference hypothesis, and generalized spectral tests. We investigate the time-varying predictability by employing the fixed-len…

  • The effect of financial inclusion on poverty reduction in Sub-Sahara Africa: Does threshold matter

    Open AccessAnthony Yaw Nsiah, Hadrat Yusif et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    This paper investigated the threshold effect of financial inclusion on poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using an annual dataset spanning 2010 to 2017, the Hansen’s estimation and Differenced generalized method of moments (GMM) methods were used to estimate the threshold level of financial inclusion that will reduce poverty and factors that influence financial inclusion respectively. The results showed that beyond a threshold level o…