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May 19, 2025International Trade Politics and DevelopmentOpen Access

Political regimes as gatekeepers: balancing globalization and financial inclusion dynamics in sub-Saharan African countries

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DADésiré AvomSTSezard Timbi

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Econometric analysis reveals that political regimes amplify the positive impact of globalization on financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa, indicating governance dictates financial integration.

Key Points

  • Investigate the direct impact of distinct globalization dimensions on financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa and evaluate the mediating role of political regimes.
  • Constructed a multidimensional financial inclusion index and disaggregated globalization into social, economic, political, and overall indices.
  • Estimated relationships across sub-Saharan African countries using two-stage least squares (2SLS) with instrumental variables and system generalized method of moments (S-GMM).
  • Evaluated political regime moderation using institutional metrics from Polity2 and Freedom House.
  • Social, economic, and overall globalization significantly increase financial inclusion, whereas political globalization yields no significant effect.
  • Political regimes positively mediate this relationship, with higher Polity2 and Freedom House scores significantly increasing the positive impact of globalization on financial inclusion.

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Avom et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0ea7bba14f152feaf9aa87https://doi.org/10.1108/itpd-09-2024-0047
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