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Does financial literacy improve financial inclusion? : cross country evidence
Grohmann, Antonia; Klühs, Theres; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2018
While financial inclusion is typically addressed by improving the financial infrastructure, we show that a higher degree of financial literacy also has a clear beneficial effect. We study this effect at the cross-country level, which allows us to consider institutional variation. Regarding...
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Does financial literacy improve financial inclusion? : cross country evidence
Grohmann, Antonia; Klühs, Theres; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2017
While financial inclusion is typically addressed by improving the financial infrastructure we show that financial literacy, representing the demand-side of financial markets, also has a beneficial effect. We study this effect at the cross-country level, which allows to consider institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716181
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Economic growth, financial development, and income inequality
Park, Donghyun; Shin, Kwanho - 2015
increases and law and order improves, financial development becomes more effective in reducing inequality. …
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Globalization, financial development and economic growth : Perils on the environmental sustainability of an emerging economy
Sethi, Pradeepta; Chakrabarti, Debkumar; Bhattacharjee, … - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 42 (2020) 3, pp. 520-535
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Economic growth, financial development, and income inequality
Park, Donghyun; Shin, Kwanho - In: Emerging markets finance & trade : a journal of the … 53 (2017) 10/11/12, pp. 2794-2825
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Chapter 10. Financing in Developing Countries
Ayyagari, Meghana; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Maksimovic, Vojislav - 2013
This chapter reviews and synthesizes theoretical and empirical research on the role of finance in developing countries. First, the paper presents the stylized facts about firms in developing nations as well as the legal, financial, and broader institutional framework in which these firms...
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Governance as a Global Development Goal? Setting, Measuring and Monitoring the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Savoia, Antonio - 2015
The increasing realisation that governance quality is a fundamental element of long-run development has led to its consideration as a desirable development goal in its own right. To contribute to such a process, this article provides a framework to set, measure and monitor governance goals in...
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Loss-of-learning and the post-Covid recovery in low-income countries
Buffie, Edward F.; Adam, Christopher S.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - 2022
We analyze the medium-term macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lock-down measures on low-income countries. We focus on the impact over the medium-run of the degradation of health and human capital caused by the pandemic and its aftermath, exploring the trade-offs between...
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Debt, investment, and growth in developing countries with segmented labor markets
Buffie, Edward F.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe; Adam, Christopher S. - 2020
We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG …'s properties by analyzing the growth, debt, and distributional consequences of big-push public investment programs with different … policymakers' social discount rate and on the weight of distributional objectives in the social welfare function …
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Does child marriage matter for growth?
Mitra, Pritha; Pondi Endengle, Eric M.; Pant, Malika; … - 2020
first to quantify the relationship between child marriage and economic growth. Applying a simultaneous equations model, the … analysis shows that eliminating child marriage would significantly improve economic growth-if child marriage were ended today …, long-term annual per capita real GDP growth in emerging and developing countries would increase by 1.05 percentage points …
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