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The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population. However, there is growing unease that blindly replicating these policies might inflict irreparable damage to poor households and foment social unrest in...
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We examine the question: “In the context of gender dimension what is the evidence of the impact of the financial inclusion programs on poor households represented by women relative to that represented by men?” By constructing a good counterfactual and comparison group, we employ the...
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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 …
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