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Financial inclusion : what have we learned so far? : what do we have to learn?
Barajas, Adolfo; Beck, Thorsten; Belhaj, Mohamed; Ben … - 2020
The past two decades have seen a rapid increase in interest in financial inclusion, both from policymakers and researchers. This paper surveys the main findings from the literature, documenting the trends over time and gaps that have arisen across regions, income levels, and gender, among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300650
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Financial globalization and inequality : capital flows as a two-edged sword
Eichengreen, Barry; Csonto, Balazs; ElGanainy, Asmaa Adel; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487207
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Finance, growth, and inequality
Levine, Ross - 2021
growth, income distribution, and poverty. In this paper, I review theoretical and empirical research on the connections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612328
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Trade and inclusive growth
Bacchetta, Marc; Cerra, Valerie; Piermartini, Roberta; … - 2021
This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition, especially from EMEs like China, spurring trade tensions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518909
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Inequality, Poverty, and Growth : Cross-Country Evidence
Iradian, Garbis - 2005
, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401034
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Remittances, Financial Development, and Growth
Ruiz-Arranz, Marta - 2005
There has been little systematic empirical study on the relationship between remittances and growth. This paper … attempts to examine this relationship. Using a newly constructed crosscountry of data series for remittances covering a large … sample of developing countries, we relate the interaction between remittances and financial development and its impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401504
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Do remittances enhance financial inclusion in LMICs and in fragile states?
Ben Naceur, Samy; Chami, Ralph; Trabelsi, Mohamed - 2020
This paper explores the relationship between remittances and financial inclusion for a sample of 187 countries over the … period 2004-2015, using cross-country as well as dynamic panel GMM regressions. At low levels of remittances-to-GDP, these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251374
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Stranded! : how rising inequality suppressed US migration and hurt those “left behind”
Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Barkema, Jelle - 2019
Using bilateral data on migration across US metro areas, we find strong evidence that increasing house price and income inequality has reduced long distance migration, the type most linked to jobs. For those migrating uphill, from a less to a more prosperous location, lower mobility is driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022044
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Measuring income inequality and implications for economic transmission channels
Blotevogel, Robert; Imamoglu, Eslem; Moriyama, Kenji; … - 2020
We study the channels that theoretically transmit the effects of inequality to economic growth, unlike much of the existing literature that focuses on the direct linkage. The role of inequality in these transmission channels is difficult to pin down and varies with the particular inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301883
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Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty Reduction : Stylized Facts and An Overview of Research
Cashin, Paul - 2001
This paper provides a brief and selective overview of research on the links between macroeconomic policies and poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401618