Building on the recent literature on finance, growth and hunger, we have examined the experience of Asian countries … variables used, there is some evidence favouring a positive role of finance in growth of GDP and agricultural value added. While … financial development reduces income inequality, the effects on hunger are not so robust. Although microfinance has considerable …

and long-term linkages among growth in agricultural and non-agricultural sectors, inequality and poverty. Agricultural … growth is found to be the most important factor in reducing inequality and poverty. The role of agricultural growth in … reducing inequality is undermined by ethnic fractionalisation which tends to make inequality more persistent. Our analysis …

appear to have a negative impact on poverty. Our empirical evidence shows that growth performance was significantly lower …Building on the recent literature on finance, growth and hunger, we have examined the experience of Asian countries … finance - defined as private credit by banks - on growth of GDP and agricultural value added. Private credit as well as loans …