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 …

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 …

This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … between surveys is associated with a lower probability of predicting some poverty indicators, and that a better imputation …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … between surveys is associated with a lower probability of predicting some poverty indicators, and that a better imputation …

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 …