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Can a mobile-app-based behavioral intervention teach financial skills to youth? : experimental evidence from a financial diaries study
Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Herrera, Alejandro; Prina, … - 2023
We study the impact of a mobile-app-based behavioral intervention on youth's financial literacy and financial behavior. To maximize the chances to reach out-of-school youth, we provided access to a user-friendly budget recording tool coupled with biweekly enumerators' visits and SMSs during a...
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Financial Development, Financial Instability and Poverty : A Novel Appraisal in the Presence of Structural Changes
Mushtaq, Rizwan - 2014
This paper attempts to investigate the causal linkages between financial development, financial instability and poverty in Pakistan in the presence of structural changes. In addition to conventional finance growth relationship, this study presents empirical evidence whether credit expansion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043109
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The effects of financial development on income inequality and poverty
Kappel, Vivien - 2010
This paper examines the effects of financial development on income inequality and poverty. The results of both cross …-country and panel data regressions suggest that inequality and poverty are reduced not only through enhanced loan markets, but … robust determinants of both income inequality and poverty. Finally, we find evidence that government spending leads to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008748148
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The comparative economics of financial access in gender economic inclusion
Asongu, Simplice; Nting, Rexon T. - 2020
The study has investigated the comparative importance of financial access in promoting gender inclusion in African countries. Gender inclusion is proxied by the female labour participation rate while financial channels include: financial system deposits and private domestic credit. The empirical...
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Inequality, ICT and financial access in Africa
Tchamyou, Vanessa S.; Erreygers, Guido; Cassimon, Danny - 2018
This study investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on income inequality through … to reduce inequality contingent on ICT, only the effect of financial depth in reducing inequality is robust to the … on this extension show that ICT reduces income inequality through formal financial sector development and financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998776
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The role of information sharing in modulating the effect of financial access on inequality
Tchamyou, Vanessa Simen - 2018
This study examines the role of information sharing in modulating the effect of financial access on income inequality … financing constraints in order to ultimately reduce inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993584
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Prosociality and risk preferences in the financial sector
Deter, Max - 2020
Using large-scale data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper finds that financial professionals have a lower prosociality and riskier behavior than a control group. I interpret these findings using the person-organization fit theory, and thus, the compatibility between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170770
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Finance-growth nexus in Africa : a panel generalized method of moments (GMM) analysis
Adusei, Michael - 2013
The paper uses the dynamic GMM Model to examine the finance-growth nexus with panel data (1981-2010) from 24 African countries. Evidence suggests that there is a positive relationship between finance and economic growth and that there is a bi-directional causal relationship between finance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763114
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Financial Development and Economic Growth : Evidence from Ghana
Adusei, Michael - 2014
The paper employs cointegration, Fully-Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS), error correction and the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) techniques to investigate the relationship between economic growth and financial development using annual time series data (1971-2010) from Ghana. Three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063972
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The nexus between financial development and poverty reduction in Egypt
Kheir, Vivian Bushra - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 3 (2018) 2, pp. 40-55
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the impact of financial development on poverty reduction in Egypt. The paper also investigates whether financial development affects poverty via gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Design/methodology/approach - This study uses the...
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