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Economic and social implications of the access to financial services both in developed and in developing countries have increasingly promoted the debate around the issue of considering “financial inclusion” as a public good, according to potential positive externalities associated to greater...
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which could improve their lives. For this study, our theoretical a priori expectation is that provision of microfinance … reinforcement of the microfinance mechanism to propagate a soothing trend for poverty reduction and economic growth. …
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In this paper we argue that the promotion of women in microfinance initiatives and the bias against men is taking place … the goal to encourage microfinance to promote women empowerment and economic development. …
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Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
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. Conventional mechanisms such as micro-finance, small-medium-enterprises (SME), and micro-insurance to enhance financial inclusion … availability of micro-finance and SME financing, financial exclusion may not be fully overcome. Therefore, one needs to utilize …
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Financial Inclusion for inclusive growth is a topic of contemporary significance and relevance. This study besides establishing the growth enhancing role of bank-based financial intermediation through empirical evidence has also found that access to finance by the poor is a prerequisite for...
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As financial inclusion gains popularity in developed and developing economies, there is a need for a single index, (simple in computation with little or no assumptions) that pools together the financial inclusion indicators adopted by the IMF financial access survey. The various variants of...
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The government of India had initiated bank payments of wages under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGP). This initiative is undoubtedly a big financial inclusion drive particularly among the rural poor of India. This paper has tried to evaluate this financial...
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This research is to assess the issues of financial inclusion of youth entrepreneurs in the creative industry, in particular the clothing industry, in DI Yogyakarta province. The research found that most entrepreneurs have access to credit from commercial banks, and indicate that there is...
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India embraced financial inclusion as a major macroeconomic reform initiative to amplify the social approach of banking even in the era of privatisation of banking and finance. The SHG-Bank linkage programme is trying to build partnership between an entrepreneurial class and repository of...
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