Crowd-funding and Alternative Finance for African Development Projects: Implications for Regional Integration
Mobile money platforms increase financial inclusion for cross-border development projects in Africa.
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Mobile money platforms increase financial inclusion for cross-border development projects in Africa.
The article was submitted on 29 July 2026, accepted on 15 November 2026, and published on 25 December 2026.
SMEs represent about 90% of businesses and more than 50% of employment worldwide.
Cryptocurrency reached an estimated market capitalization of 3.9 trillion USD in 2025, driving high adoption in lower-middle income countries.
The national zakat potential in Indonesia reaches Rp 327 triliun per year, according to BAZNAS estimates.
A single hunter accumulated 933,365 Arbitrum tokens valued at nearly $1 million in 2023.
Amazon executed a $200M acquisition of BNPL lender Axio in early 2025 to expand into Indian digital lending.
The study analyzes a balanced panel of 53 ordinary equity securities continuously listed and traded on the Nairobi Securities Exchange over the 2021-2025 period.
A study of 218 market traders in Chota and Bagua Grande revealed that 28.0% had low financial literacy and 33.5% had low tax management.
Between 2014-2019 and 2020-2025, two-year yield commonality rose from 45.2% to 56.4%, while ten-minus-two-year slope commonality declined from 66.7% to 56.4%.
Headline employment upside surprises create a Phantom Payroll Divergence, where overall job additions hide structural contractions in high-wage white-collar technology payrolls [p.3].
The Privacy-Preserving Explainable Trust Framework (PP-ETF) achieves AUC-ROC performance within 1.4%–1.6% of centralized deep-learning models while enforcing privacy and decentralized trust guarantees.
Between 2023 and 2025, registered MSME taxpayers in Sukoharjo Regency rose by 56%, while the share filing tax returns fell from 99% to 49%.
Global Islamic financial assets reached around USD 3.88 trillion in 2024 according to the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB).
Kyrgyzstan committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by almost 16 % by 2030 under its Nationally Determined Contribution.
The Satyam scandal of 2009 in India revealed balance-sheet misstatements exceeding ₹7,000 crore, of which ₹5,040 crore represented non-existent cash and bank balances.
The issuance of government securities in Uzbekistan doubled from 21.3 trillion UZS to 42.2 trillion UZS between 2023 and 2025.
The Baku to Belém Roadmap aims to mobilize at least $1.3 trillion per year by 2035 and triple adaptation finance.
The final study sample comprises 215 non-financial companies listed on B3 with 1,267 observations from 2010 to 2023.
Family offices globally manage an estimated US$10 trillion in assets, with total sector numbers ranging from 8,000 to 17,000.
Shareholder agreements in closely held corporations, regulated by Article 118 of Brazilian Law No. 6.404/1976, serve to maintain corporate stability but can face paralysis under equal or shared control.
The study applies manual documentary content analysis to 43 distinct source-linked evidence IDs across 51 register rows from GCC issuer reports.
On 2026-09-07, a retrospective change in the transaction dataset had an absolute impact on SWESTR between 0.1 and 0.5 basis points.
Data from the Ministry of Cooperatives shows that the number of active cooperatives in Indonesia declined from 209,448 in 2014 to 130,119 in 2023.
Mergers and acquisitions transactions feature an interim period between signing and closing where commercial assumptions and target conditions may change before completion.
In 2019, the Bank of Tanzania issued a public notice cautioning against the use, marketing, and trading of cryptocurrencies, declaring the Tanzanian Shilling as the sole legal tender.
At Kaisheng Haofeng Agricultural Group, AI tools enabled invoice sorting that originally took 3 people 3 days to be completed by 1 person in half a day, increasing efficiency by 18 times.
A lagged reference gap lowers twenty-observation official-curve forecast mean squared error (MSE) by 3.48 percent.
The study gathers primary data using a structured questionnaire administered to a sample size of 100 respondents from MSMEs.
The final sample analyzed consists of 225 ABDC-indexed articles published across 78 journals between 1986 and 2024.