Digital financial inclusion and income inequality in WAEMU: What causality for what heterogeneity?

In developing countries, economic inequality is attracting considerable attention. Many factors including financial exclusion are key in explaining income gap countries. This paper examines the effect of access to services through digital technologies on inequality. Using data from World Development Indicator (WDI), Central Bank West African States (BCEAO) and Standardized Income Inequality Database (SWIID), we estimated a pooled means group estimation (PMGE) dynamic fixed (DFE) as robustness test. The results indicate that inclusion leads decrease long run, there negative significant short run evidenced more heterogeneity WAEMU countries due diversity, inconclusiveness, counterintuitive DFI