Poverty remains a pressing problem in rural areas of the developing world. This is also true for India. Expanding the … rural financial system with a focus on increasing access to credit has been an important approach for poverty alleviation in …

authors aimed to explore the impact of financial technology on the digital literacy rate in India, by utilizing the poverty …'s empirical results show that KCCs and ATMs positively impact literacy when interacting with poverty scores. The study's findings …

that people who are vulnerable to fall under the poverty line indulge in criminal activities as a consumption smoothing … towards economic growth, poverty alleviation and crime deterrence concomitantly. The results indicate a positive and … statistically significant impact of poverty, inequitable income growth and low quality of the legal system on incidence of total …

Does poverty lead to crime? We shed light on this question using two independent and exogenous shocks to household … trade shocks, previously shown to raise relative poverty, also increased the incidence of violent crimes and property crimes …. Our results thus identify a causal effect of poverty on crime. They also lend credence to a large literature on the …