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Financial inclusion: new measurement and cross-country impact assessment

Park, Cyn-Young; Mercado, Rogelio V. <Jr.> - 2018

inclusion on poverty and income inequality. The results provide evidence that high- and middle-high-income economies with high … financial inclusion have significantly lower poverty, while no such relation exists for middle-low and low-income economies. The … nonlinearities in the cross-country determinants and impacts of financial inclusion on poverty and income inequality across income …

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Handbook of research on microfinancial impacts on women empowerment, poverty, and inequality

Das, Ramesh Chandra (ed.) - 2018

"This book explores the issue of whether microfinance institutions empower women has become a heated debate not only in …

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Financial inclusion and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Sarpong, Bernard; Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-17

This paper empirically examines the quantitative relationship between financial inclusion and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa using a panel of 46 countries for the period 2004–2018. The evidence suggests that usage of financial services, among other covariates, has a quantifiable and...

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For narrower income inequality : traditional finance or microfinance?

Al-Azzam, Moh'd - In: Applied economics 56 (2024) 54, pp. 7065-7082

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Multidimensional targeting and evaluation : a general framework with an application to a poverty program in Bangladesh

Robano, Virginia; Smith, Stephen C. - 2013

Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …

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