We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing …/send money', while the modifying policy indicator is the human development index (HDI). The data is decomposed into seven sub … findings are established. First, the increased use of mobile phones to pay bills is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in …

Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global … development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey … tangible information about poverty. But both ignore the depth of poverty, so they arguably present distorted views of the …