Beyond the neoliberal-statist divide on the drivers of innovation: A political settlements reading of Kenya’s M-Pesa success story
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104621
Download full text from publisher
As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.
References listed on IDEAS
- David Porteous, 2009. "Mobilizing Money through Enabling Regulation," Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, MIT Press, vol. 4(1), pages 75-90, January.
- Erkki Karo, 2018. "Mission-oriented innovation policies and bureaucracies in East Asia," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 27(5), pages 867-881.
- Melody, William H, 1997. "On the meaning and importance of 'independence' in telecom reform," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 21(3), pages 195-199, April.
- Wang, Jue, 2018. "Innovation and government intervention: A comparison of Singapore and Hong Kong," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 47(2), pages 399-412.
- Paola Perez-Aleman & Flavia Chaves Alves, 2017. "Reinventing industrial policy at the frontier: catalysing learning and innovation in Brazil," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 10(1), pages 151-171.
- Lepoutre, Jan & Oguntoye, Augustina, 2018. "The (non-)emergence of mobile money systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: A comparative multilevel perspective of Kenya and Nigeria," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 131(C), pages 262-275.
- Robert H. Wade, 2018. "The Developmental State: Dead or Alive?," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 49(2), pages 518-546, March.
- Wallsten, Scott, 2002. "Does sequencing matter? regulation and privatization in telecommunications reforms," Policy Research Working Paper Series 2817, The World Bank.
- Daron Acemoglu & Ufuk Akcigit, 2012. "Intellectual Property Rights Policy, Competition And Innovation," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 10(1), pages 1-42, February.
- Kenneth Arrow, 1962. "Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention," NBER Chapters, in: The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors, pages 609-626, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Gillwald, Alison, 2005. "Good intentions, poor outcomes: Telecommunications reform in South Africa," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 29(7), pages 469-491, August.
- Crespi, Gustavo & Zuniga, Pluvia, 2012.
"Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from Six Latin American Countries,"
World Development, Elsevier, vol. 40(2), pages 273-290.
- Gustavo Crespi & Pluvia Zuniga, 2010. "Innovation and Productivity - Evidence from Six Latin American Countries," Research Department Publications 4690, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department.
- Crespi, Gustavo & Zuñiga, Pluvia, 2010. "Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from Six Latin American Countries," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 1985, Inter-American Development Bank.
- Ho, Chun-Yu & Huang, Shaoqing & Shi, Hao & Wu, Jun, 2018. "Financial deepening and innovation: The role of political institutions," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 109(C), pages 1-13.
- Williams, Timothy P., 2017. "The Political Economy of Primary Education: Lessons from Rwanda," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 550-561.
- Diego Comin & Martí Mestieri, 2018.
"If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?,"
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 10(3), pages 137-178, July.
- Diego A. Comin & Martí Mestieri Ferrer, 2013. "If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why has Income Diverged?," NBER Working Papers 19010, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Comin, Diego & Mestieri, MartÃ, 2013. "If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?," CEPR Discussion Papers 9466, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Comin, Diego & Mestieri, Marti, 2013. "If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?," TSE Working Papers 13-409, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
- Arnott, Richard & Stiglitz, Joseph E, 1991. "Moral Hazard and Nonmarket Institutions: Dysfunctional Crowding Out or Peer Monitoring?," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 81(1), pages 179-190, March.
- Busom, Isabel & Vélez-Ospina, Jorge Andrés, 2017. "Innovation, Public Support, and Productivity in Colombia. A Cross-industry Comparison," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 75-94.
- Ha-Joon Chang & Ali Cheema & L. Mises, 2002.
"Conditions For Successful Technology Policy In Developing Countries—Learning Rents, State Structures, And Institutions,"
Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(4-5), pages 369-398.
- Chang, Ha-Joon & Cheema, Ali, 2001. "Conditions for Successful Technology Policy in Developing Countries : Learning Rents, State Structures and Institutions," UNU-INTECH Discussion Paper Series 2001-08, United Nations University - INTECH.
- North, Douglass C. & Weingast, Barry R., 1989. "Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 49(4), pages 803-832, December.
- Sunduzwayo Madise, 2019. "The Regulation of Mobile Money," Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-3-030-13831-8, September.
- Whitfield,Lindsay & Therkildsen,Ole & Buur,Lars & Kjær,Anne Mette, 2015. "The Politics of African Industrial Policy," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781107105317.
- AfDB AfDB, . "Annual Report 2012," Annual Report, African Development Bank, number 461.
- Lashitew, Addisu A. & van Tulder, Rob & Liasse, Yann, 2019. "Mobile phones for financial inclusion: What explains the diffusion of mobile money innovations?," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(5), pages 1201-1215.
- Waverman, Leonard & Koutroumpis, Pantelis, 2011. "Benchmarking telecoms regulation - The Telecommunications Regulatory Governance Index (TRGI)," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 35(5), pages 450-468, June.
- Lant Pritchett, 1997.
"Divergence, Big Time,"
Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 11(3), pages 3-17, Summer.
- Pritchett, Lant, 1995. "Divergence, big time," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1522, The World Bank.
- Xiaolan Fu & Jing Zhang, 2011. "Technology transfer, indigenous innovation and leapfrogging in green technology: the solar-PV industry in China and India," Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(4), pages 329-347, August.
- Mary Hallward-Driemeier & Lant Pritchett, 2015. "How Business Is Done in the Developing World: Deals versus Rules," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 29(3), pages 121-140, Summer.
- Rainer Kattel & Mariana Mazzucato, 2018. "Mission-oriented innovation policy and dynamic capabilities in the public sector," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 27(5), pages 787-801.
- Geoffrey C. Chen & Charles Lees, 2016. "Growing China’s renewables sector: a developmental state approach," New Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(6), pages 574-586, November.
- Isabel Busom & Jorge-Andrés Vélez-Ospina, 2017. "Innovation, public support and productivity in colombia," Working Papers wpdea1701, Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona.
- WorldFish, 2013. "Annual report 2012/13," Monographs, The WorldFish Center, number 40306, April.
Citations
Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
Cited by:
- Alenka Lena Klopcic & Jana Hojnik & Stefan Bojnec & Drago Papler, 2020. "Global Transition to the Subscription Economy: Literature Review on Business Model Changes in the Media Landscape," Managing Global Transitions, University of Primorska, Faculty of Management Koper, vol. 18(4 (Winter), pages 323-348.
- Mann, Laura & Iazzolino, Gianluca, 2021. "From development state to corporate leviathan: historicizing the infrastructural performativity of digital platforms within Kenyan agriculture," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 110725, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
- Osabutey, Ellis L.C. & Jackson, Terence, 2024. "Mobile money and financial inclusion in Africa: Emerging themes, challenges and policy implications," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 202(C).
- Koomson, Isaac & Bukari, Chei & Villano, Renato A, 2021. "Mobile money adoption and response to idiosyncratic shocks: Empirics from five selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 167(C).
- Laura Mann & Gianluca Iazzolino, 2021. "From Development State to Corporate Leviathan: Historicizing the Infrastructural Performativity of Digital Platforms within Kenyan Agriculture," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 52(4), pages 829-854, July.
- Michael Odijie, 2024. "Nigeria's Sugar Master Plan: Ignoring losers from industrial policy can be costly," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 42(2), March.
- Anthea Paelo & Simon Roberts, 2022. "Competition and Regulation of Mobile Money Platforms in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Kenya and Uganda," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 60(3), pages 463-489, May.
- Bacha, Radia & Gasmi, Farid, 2022. "The broadband diffusion process and its determinants in Algeria: A simultaneous estimation," TSE Working Papers 22-1309, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
- de Jong, Abe & Shahriar, Abu Zafar & Shazia, Farhan, 2022. "Reaching out to the unbanked: The role of political ideology in financial inclusion," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 126(C).
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- Edeh, Jude N. & Acedo, Francisco J., 2021. "External supports, innovation efforts and productivity: Estimation of a CDM model for small firms in developing countries," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 173(C).
- Zahler, Andrés & Goya, Daniel & Caamaño, Matías, 2022. "The primacy of demand and financial obstacles in hindering innovation," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 174(C).
- repec:zbw:bofrdp:urn:nbn:fi:bof-201511261452 is not listed on IDEAS
- repec:zbw:bofrdp:2015_023 is not listed on IDEAS
- Sebastian Heinen, 2022.
"Rwanda’s Agricultural Transformation Revisited: Stagnating Food Production, Systematic Overestimation, and a Flawed Performance Contract System,"
Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 58(10), pages 2044-2064, October.
- Sebastian Heinen, 2021. "Rwanda's Agricultural Transformation Revisited: Stagnating Food Production, Systematic Overestimation, and a Flawed Performance Contract System," Working Papers 242, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK.
- Mariotto, Carlotta & Verdier, Marianne, 2015. "Innovation and competition in Internet and mobile banking: an industrial organization perspective," Research Discussion Papers 23/2015, Bank of Finland.
- repec:bof:bofrdp:urn:nbn:fi:bof-201511261452 is not listed on IDEAS
- Marco Túlio Dinali Viglioni & Mozar José Brito & Cristina Lelis Leal Calegario, 2020. "Innovation and R&D in Latin America and the Caribbean countries: a systematic literature review," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 125(3), pages 2131-2167, December.
- Seenaiah Kale & Badri Narayan Rath, 2018. "Does Innovation Enhance Productivity In Case Of Selected Indian Manufacturing Firms?," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 64(05), pages 1225-1250, November.
- Roth Cardoso, Hugo Henrique & Dantas Gonçalves, Adriana & Dambiski Gomes de Carvalho, Gustavo & Gomes de Carvalho, Hélio, 2020. "Evaluating innovation development among Brazilian micro and small businesses in view of management level: Insights from the local innovation agents program," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
- Olayinka David-West & Oluwasola Oni & Folajimi Ashiru, 2022. "Diffusion of Innovations: Mobile Money Utility and Financial Inclusion in Nigeria. Insights from Agents and Unbanked Poor End Users," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 24(6), pages 1753-1773, December.
- Tarek Roshdy Gebba & Mohamed Gamal Aboelmaged, 2016. "Corporate Governance of UAE Financial Institutions: A Comparative Study between Conventional and Islamic Banks," Journal of Applied Finance & Banking, SCIENPRESS Ltd, vol. 6(5), pages 1-7.
- Steven Bond‐Smith, 2022. "Discretely innovating: The effect of limited market contestability on innovation and growth," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Scottish Economic Society, vol. 69(3), pages 301-327, July.
- Giovanni Dosi & Andrea Roventini & Emmanuele Russo, 2020.
"Public Policies And The Art Of Catching Up,"
Working Papers
hal-03242369, HAL.
- Giovanni Dosi & Andrea Roventini & Emmanuele Russo, 2020. "Public Policies And The Art Of Catching Up," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-03242369, HAL.
- Rut Atayde & Rafael Garduño & Eduardo Robles & Pluvia Zúñiga, 2021. "Market competition and firm productivity and innovation: Responses in Mexican manufacturing industries," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 13(4), pages 1185-1214, August.
- Asongu, Simplice A. & Biekpe, Nicholas & Cassimon, Danny, 2020.
"Understanding the greater diffusion of mobile money innovations in Africa,"
Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 44(8).
- Simplice A. Asongu & Nicholas Biekpe & Danny Cassimon, 2020. "Understanding the greater diffusion of mobile money innovations in Africa," Working Papers 20/032, European Xtramile Centre of African Studies (EXCAS).
- Asongu, Simplice & Biekpe, Nicholas & Cassimon, Danny, 2020. "Understanding the greater diffusion of mobile money innovations in Africa," MPRA Paper 107086, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Simplice A. Asongu & Nicholas Biekpe & Danny Cassimon, 2020. "Understanding the greater diffusion of mobile money innovations in Africa," Working Papers of the African Governance and Development Institute. 20/032, African Governance and Development Institute..
- Simplice A. Asongu & Nicholas Biekpe & Danny Cassimon, 2020. "Understanding the greater diffusion of mobile money innovations in Africa," Research Africa Network Working Papers 20/032, Research Africa Network (RAN).
- Diana Hancock & Wayne Passmore, 2015. "How Does the Federal Reserve's Large-Scale Asset Purchases (LSAPs) Influence Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) Yields and U.S. Mortgage Rates?," Real Estate Economics, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, vol. 43(4), pages 855-890, November.
- Paul Dalziel, 2019. "Wellbeing economics in public policy: A distinctive Australasian contribution?," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 30(4), pages 478-497, December.
- Giovanni Dosi & Andrea Roventini & Emanuele Russo, 2021.
"Public policies and the art of catching up: matching the historical evidence with a multicountry agent-based model [Catching up, forging ahead, and falling behind],"
Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 30(4), pages 1011-1036.
- Giovanni Dosi & Andrea Roventini & Emanuele Russo, 2020. "Public policies and the art of catching up: matching the historical evidence with a multicountry agent-based model," Post-Print hal-04090415, HAL.
- Giovanni Dosi & Andrea Roventini & Emanuele Russo, 2020. "Public policies and the art of catching up: matching the historical evidence with a multi-country agent-based model," LEM Papers Series 2020/10, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
- Giovanni Dosi & Andrea Roventini & Emanuele Russo, 2020. "Public policies and the art of catching up: matching the historical evidence with a multicountry agent-based model," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-04090415, HAL.
- Giovanni Dosi & Andrea Roventini & Emanuele Russo, 2020. "Public policies and the art of catching up: matching the historical evidence with a multi-country agent-based model," Documents de Travail de l'OFCE 2020-18, Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE).
- Simplice A. Asongu & Nicholas M. Odhiambo, 2022.
"The of role economic growth in modulating mobile connectivity dynamics for financial inclusion in developing countries,"
Working Papers
22/013, European Xtramile Centre of African Studies (EXCAS).
- Asongu, Simplice & Odhiambo, Nicholas, 2022. "The of role economic growth in modulating mobile connectivity dynamics for financial inclusion in developing countries," MPRA Paper 119060, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Simplice A. Asongu & Nicholas M. Odhiambo, 2022. "The of role economic growth in modulating mobile connectivity dynamics for financial inclusion in developing countries," Working Papers of the African Governance and Development Institute. 22/013, African Governance and Development Institute..
- Binz, Christian & Gosens, Jorrit & Hansen, Teis & Hansen, Ulrich Elmer, 2017. "Toward Technology-Sensitive Catching-Up Policies: Insights from Renewable Energy in China," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 418-437.
- Asongu, Simplice A. & Biekpe, Nicholas & Cassimon, Danny, 2021.
"On the diffusion of mobile phone innovations for financial inclusion,"
Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 65(C).
- Asongu, Simplice & Biekpe, Nicholas & Cassimon, Danny, 2020. "On the diffusion of mobile phone innovations for financial inclusion," MPRA Paper 107097, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised May 2021.
- Simplice A. Asongu & Nicholas Biekpe & Danny Cassimon, 2020. "On the diffusion of mobile phone innovations for financial inclusion," Working Papers 20/041, European Xtramile Centre of African Studies (EXCAS).
- Simplice A. Asongu & Nicholas Biekpe & Danny Cassimon, 2020. "On the diffusion of mobile phone innovations for financial inclusion," Working Papers of the African Governance and Development Institute. 20/041, African Governance and Development Institute..
- Simplice A. Asongu & Nicholas Biekpe & Danny Cassimon, 2020. "On the diffusion of mobile phone innovations for financial inclusion," Research Africa Network Working Papers 20/041, Research Africa Network (RAN).
- Asongu, Simplice A. & Agyemang-Mintah, Peter & Nting, Rexon T., 2021.
"Law, mobile money drivers and mobile money innovations in developing countries,"
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 168(C).
- Simplice A. Asongu & Peter Agyemang-Mintah & Rexon T. Nting, 2021. "Law, mobile money drivers and mobile money innovations in developing countries," Research Africa Network Working Papers 21/021, Research Africa Network (RAN).
- Asongu, Simplice & Agyemang-Mintah, Peter & Nting, Rexon, 2021. "Law, mobile money drivers and mobile money innovations in developing countries," MPRA Paper 110135, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Simplice A. Asongu & Peter Agyemang-Mintah & Rexon T. Nting, 2021. "Law, mobile money drivers and mobile money innovations in developing countries," Working Papers 21/021, European Xtramile Centre of African Studies (EXCAS).
- Simplice A. Asongu & Peter Agyemang-Mintah & Rexon T. Nting, 2021. "Law, mobile money drivers and mobile money innovations in developing countries," Working Papers of the African Governance and Development Institute. 21/021, African Governance and Development Institute..
More about this item
Keywords
Political settlement; Innovation; Mobile money; M-Pesa; Africa; Kenya;All these keywords.
Statistics
Access and download statisticsCorrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:125:y:2020:i:c:s0305750x19302670. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/worlddev .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.