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The financial inclusion landscape in the Asia-Pacific region : a dozen key findings
Jahan, Sarwat; De, Jayendu; Jamaludin, Fazurin; … - 2019
Financial inclusion is a multidimensional concept and countries have chosen diverse methods of enhancing financial inclusion with varying degrees of results. The heterogeneity of financial inclusion is particularly striking in the Asia-Pacific region as member countries range from those that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102214
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Financial development, inequality and poverty : some international evidence
Ben Naceur, Samy; Zhang, RuiXin - 2016
income inequality and poverty, except financial liberalization, which tends to exacerbate them. Also, banking sector … fully support the reduction of poverty and income equality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434750
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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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Identifying constraints to financial inclusion and their impact on GDP and inequality : a structural framework for policy
Dabla-Norris, Era; Ji, Yan; Townsend, Robert M.; Unsal, … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282762
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Inequality overhang
Grigoli, Francesco; Robles, Adrian - 2017
The linearity of the relationship between income inequality and economic development has been long questioned. While theory provides arguments for which the shape of relationship may be positive for low levels of inequality and negative for high ones, most of the empirical literature assumes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671105
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Inequality in financial inclusion and income inequality
Aslan, Goksu; Deléchat, Corinne; Newiak, Monique; Yang, Fan - 2017
We investigate the link between gender inequality in financial inclusion and income inequality, with three contributions to the recent literature. First, using a micro-dataset covering 146,000 individuals in over 140 countries, we construct novel, synthetic indices of the intensity of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763549
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Identifying Constraints to Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP and Inequality: A Structural Framework for Policy
2015 - Dabla-Norris, Era ; Ji, Yan ; Townsend, Robert ; Unsal, D. Filiz ed
We develop a micro-founded general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents to identify pertinent constraints to financial inclusion. We evaluate quantitatively the policy impacts of relaxing each of these constraints separately, and in combination, on GDP and inequality. We focus on three...
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The short-term impact of COVID-19 on labor markets, poverty and inequality in Brazil
Al Masri, Diala; Flamini, Valentina; Toscani, Frederik - 2021
decline in earnings, extreme poverty and the Gini coefficient based on labor income increased by around 9.2 and 5 percentage … than offset the labor income losses for the bottom four deciles, however, such that poverty relative to the pre … ended in late 2020. The challenge will be to avoid a sharp increase in poverty and inequality if the labor market does not …
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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...
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The poverty and distributional impacts of carbon pricing : channels and policy implications
Shang, Baoping - 2021
Addressing the poverty and distributional impacts of carbon pricing reforms is critical for the success of ambitious … which carbon pricing can potentially affect poverty and inequality. It finds that the channels differ in important ways …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610729