Gutierrez-Romero, Roxana; Ahamed, Mostak - 2021
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic risks wiping out years of progress made in reducing global poverty. In this paper, we … explore to what extent financial inclusion could help mitigate the increase in poverty using cross-country data across 79 low …, particularly financial outreach, is a key driver of poverty reduction in these countries. This effect is not direct, but indirect …