Purpose

The study has investigated the comparative importance of financial access in promoting gender inclusion in African countries.

Design/methodology/approach

Gender inclusion is proxied by the female labour participation rate while financial channels include: financial system deposits and private domestic credit. The empirical evidence is based on non-contemporary fixed effects regressions.

Findings

In order to provide more implications on comparative relevance, the dataset is categorised into income levels (middle income versus (vs.) low income); legal origins (French civil law vs. English common law); religious domination (Islam vs. Christianity); openness to sea (coastal vs. landlocked); resource-wealth (oil-poor vs. oil-rich) and political stability (stable vs. unstable). Six main hypotheses are tested, notably, that middle income, English common law, Christianity, coastal, oil-rich and stable countries enjoy better levels of “financial access”-induced gender inclusion compared to respectively, low income, French civil law, Islam, landlocked, oil-poor and unstable countries. All six tested hypotheses are validated.

Originality/value

This is the first study on the comparative importance of financial access in gender economic participation.

中文翻译：

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性别经济包容性中金融获取的比较经济学

目的

这项研究调查了金融渠道在促进非洲国家性别平等方面的相对重要性。

设计/方法/方法

社会性别的包容性是由女性劳动参与率来代替的，而金融渠道则包括：金融系统存款和私人国内信贷。经验证据基于非当代固定效应回归。

发现

为了对比较相关性提供更多含义，将数据集分类为收入水平（中等收入与（相对于低收入））；法律渊源（法国民法与英国普通法）；宗教统治（伊斯兰与基督教）；向海洋开放（沿海与内陆）；资源财富（贫油与富油）和政治稳定（稳定与不稳定）。检验了六个主要假设，特别是与低收入，法国民法，伊斯兰教相比，中等收入，英国普通法，基督教，沿海国，石油丰富和稳定的国家在“金融准入”引起的性别包容性方面分别享有更高的水平内陆，石油匮乏和不稳定的国家。所有六个检验的假设均得到验证。

创意/价值

这是关于金融渠道在性别经济参与中的相对重要性的第一项研究。