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authors aimed to explore the impact of financial technology on the digital literacy rate in India, by utilizing the poverty … and two union territories (UTs) of India were considered for three financial years, i.e., 2017-2018 to 2019-2020. The … literacy. Additionally, the findings imply that ordinary people living in urban and rural areas of India should take advantage …
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Do information frictions limit the benefits of financial inclusion drives for the rural poor? We evaluate an experimental intervention among recently banked poor Indian women receiving government cash transfers via direct deposit. Treated women were provided automated voice calls confirming...
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The paper reviews the relevance of formal financial services - and in particular savings - to poor people, the economic factors that have hindered the mass-scale delivery of such services in developing countries, and the technology-based opportunities that exist today to make massive gains in...
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The transition from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals has substantially shifted the policy debate from development to inclusive development. Using interactive quantile regressions, we examine the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (quality...
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A growing body of rigorous research shows that financial services innovations can have important positive impacts on wellbeing, but also that many do not. We first describe the latest evidence on what works in financial inclusion. Second, we summarize research on key financial market failures...
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Mobile banking places a wide set of financial services – transferring money for savings, investment, paying bills, to relatives – into the palm of a person's hand. Mobile money transfers have rapidly grown in Kenya, Tanzania, the Philippines, and is set to grow rapidly in Bangladesh in the...
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