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Does financial development increase rural-urban income inequality? Cointegration analysis in the case of Indian economy

Tiwari, Aviral Kumar; Shahbaz, Muhammad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The aim of paper is to investigate the affect of financial development on rural-urban income inequality in India over the period of 1960-2008. In doing so, ARDL bounds testing approach was applied to examine cointegration and Ng-Perron unit root test to check the order of integration of the...

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Financial Crisis and Migrant Remittances : Effects on Growth and Poverty in Selected South Asian Countries

Mahmud, Mahreen - 2010

The study proposes to evaluate the impact of the current financial crisis on remittances received by three South Asian … countries, namely Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The objective is twofold: to forecast the impact of change in remittances … remittances will be used in a Keynesian framework to assess the impact of remittances on the growth of these countries while at …

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Motivating migrants: A field experiment on financial decision-making in transnational households

Seshan, Ganesh; Yang, Dean - In: Journal of Development Economics 108 (2014) C, pp. 119-127

We randomly assigned male migrant workers in Qatar invitations to a motivational workshop aimed at improving financial habits and encouraging joint decision-making with spouses back home in India. 13–17months later, we surveyed migrants and wives to estimate intent-to-treat impacts in their...

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Remittances in India : Facts and Issues

Tumbe, Chinmay - 2011

This paper provides a fact sheet of domestic and international remittances at the State level and across household … characteristics and discusses the extent of remittance dependency, it's growth since the 1990's, the different uses of remittances …-08, 60% being Inter-State transfers and 80% directed towards rural households (b) Domestic remittances financed over 30% of …

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Informality and Access to Finance : Evidence from India

Beck, Thorsten; Hoseini, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2014

This paper gauges the effect of financial deepening and bank outreach on informality using micro data from the Indian manufacturing sector and exploiting cross-industry variation in the need for external finance. We distinguish between two channels through which access to finance can reduce...

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Information, Misallocation and Aggregate Productivity

David, Joel - 2015

We propose a theory linking imperfect information to resource misallocation and hence to aggregate productivity and output. In our setup, firms look to a variety of noisy information sources when making input decisions. We devise a novel empirical strategy that uses a combination of firm-level...

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Economic Slowdown and Financial Fragility : The Structural Malaise of India's Growth Process

Dasgupta, Zico - 2020

The Indian economy is presently gripped by the dual phenomenon of an unprecedented slowdown as well as financial fragility. What has triggered this? Is this simply a random exogenous shock to an otherwise well-functioning economy? Or, is there anything structural about the present slowdown? What...

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Trade openness relationship with macroeconomic factors on Saudi Arabian economy : ARDL application

Tarchoun, Monaem; Ghraieb, Ikram - In: International trade, politics and development 6 (2022) 3, pp. 121-129

Purpose This paper examines the relationship of financial market inclusion, economic growth, foreign direct investment and real output on trade openness for the Saudi Arabia Economy. Trade openness potentially is a major source of economic growth and development. Design/methodology/approach This...

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Inclusive human development and governance nexus : causality analysis of selected Asian countries

Stylianou, Tasos; Nasir, Rakia; Waqas, Muhammad - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 3, pp. 1-13

This study investigates the role of governance in inclusive human development in the case of twenty-four selected Asian countries, using panel data for the time period from 2010 to 2017. The inequality-adjusted human development index, developed by the United Nation Development Program, has been...

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Financial inclusion and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Sarpong, Bernard; Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-17

This paper empirically examines the quantitative relationship between financial inclusion and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa using a panel of 46 countries for the period 2004–2018. The evidence suggests that usage of financial services, among other covariates, has a quantifiable and...

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