Evidence suggests there is a structural issue, on a global scale, that affects women's ability to access credit to the … same degree as men and that this imbalance in credit availability has costs for welfare, national and global economic … growth. Much research comments on the effect on women from financial empowerment (of which access to credit is one facet …

This paper examines the effects of Islamic banking on the causal linkages between credit and GDP by comparing two sets … analysis provides evidence of long-run causality running from credit to GDP in countries with Islamic banks only. This is …

The aim of this paper is analyzing the evolution of the Brazilian credit market from 2003 to 2011 and its impact on … determinants and the general trends of the banking credit market between December 2003 and December 2011, while the third section …