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 …

sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … women's behavior is constrained by family affiliation, poverty level and caste, all of which affects men much less. Last, in …, likely to strengthen the association between debt and poverty for women, and in particular to exacerbate female …

The objective of the present study is to examine whether household access to microfinance reduces poverty. Using … national household data from India, treatment effects model is employed to estimate the poverty-reducing effects of MFIs loans … for productive purposes, such as investment in agriculture or non-farm businesses on household poverty levels. These …

excluded. These may include savings, insurances, remittances, and credit. Microfinance became the most dominant method for … achieving financial inclusion. However, different microfinance schools of thought recommend opposite ways for attaining … released data from the Global Findex database. Second, focusing on microfinance as the dominant vehicle for achieving financial …