This paper is concerned with the recent history of microfinance, both for itself and as a case study of the evolution … applauded the successes of microfinance in expanding financial market opportunities; and a political economy critique that … India, before turning to the potential for a more inductive and plural account. A more plural history of microfinance …

This paper lays out some of the basic concepts surrounding financial inclusion, including access to banking, digital … finance, and microcredit/ microfinance. It goes on to discuss various empirical and institutional studies of these dimensions …

enhance households' access to and usage of the financial system, especially the formal banking system, is to ensure that an … controlling for other factors, suggesting that there may be an "urbanization effect" that is dampening credit access and usage …Financial inclusion plays an important role in giving households greater access to borrowing opportunities, which in …

, financial inclusion, and microfinance, using Mauritania as a case study. We used a mixed-methods’ methodology that combines … investigate the factors that impact the households’ access to credit, the main advantage of this model being to avoid confounding … effects by analyzing the association of all variables together. Our study found that access to financial services is equal in …