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This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and … are established. (i) Income inequality unconditionally reduces poverty and the severity of poverty though the significance … significantly moderate the positive incidence of income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in some quantiles. (iii …
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income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2019. The Gini … index is used to measure income inequality while poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio, and the severity of … empirical strategy. Income inequality unconditionally increases poverty dynamics while the financial institutions' depth and …
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This paper empirically examines the quantitative relationship between financial inclusion and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa using a panel of 46 countries for the period 2004–2018. The evidence suggests that usage of financial services, among other covariates, has a quantifiable and...
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inclusion on poverty and income inequality. The results provide evidence that high- and middle-high-income economies with high … nonlinearities in the cross-country determinants and impacts of financial inclusion on poverty and income inequality across income … financial inclusion have significantly lower poverty, while no such relation exists for middle-low and low-income economies. The …
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We examine the question: “In the context of gender dimension what is the evidence of the impact of the financial inclusion programs on poor households represented by women relative to that represented by men?” By constructing a good counterfactual and comparison group, we employ the...
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poverty. In this paper, we ask whether mobile money can help lift people out of poverty. Previous studies have addressed this …-level data to reevaluate the mobile money–poverty nexus. In particular, we study the impact of mobile money on district …-level poverty in Bangladesh over the period 2010–2016. Our study finds that every 1 billion Taka (approximately US$ 11.76 million …
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This paper investigates whether financial development is conducive in poverty reduction. Separating financial … physical access is beneficial in reducing the proportion of people below the poverty line. Using alternative measures of … financial instability, the results also challenge existing findings that it may increase the incidence of poverty. In addition …
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The study assesses how financial institution dynamics have affected poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 sub … institutions dynamics affect poverty and the severity of poverty throughout the conditional distribution of poverty and severity of … poverty. The findings show various tendencies, inter alia: (i) financial institutions depth (efficiency) consistently …
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Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the impact of financial development on poverty reduction … in Egypt. The paper also investigates whether financial development affects poverty via gross domestic product (GDP … specifications. The first is dependent on poverty by the ratio domestic credit to the private sector (percentage of GDP) and the …
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