Poverty reduction has become a top goal in the socio-economic development strategies of countries and a topic of … interest for researchers. A number of prior empirical studies have identified the importance of financial inclusion to poverty … reduction. However, most of these studies assess the effect of financial inclusion on income poverty reduction. There are …

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 …

Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …

This study examines the effect of financial inclusion on poverty and vulnerability to poverty of Ghanaian households … households' vulnerability to poverty. Endogeneity associated with financial inclusion is resolved using distance to the nearest … are considered poor, about 51 percent are vulnerable to poverty. We found that an increase in financial inclusion has two …

Depth of outreach in microfinance is conceptualised as the degree to which a microfinance institution serves (very … concerns. Academics have voiced a numerous conceptual critiques of this proxy but, to date, the lack of reliable client poverty …. Fortunately, we have access to the Microfinanza dataset, which contains client poverty and average loan size data for a reasonable …