This study tests the association between financial inclusion and energy poverty in Indonesia. It adopts multi …-dimensional energy poverty and financial inclusion measures employing the 2018 Statistics Indonesia data. The energy poverty measures … between financial inclusion and energy poverty, bringing potential critical notes for Indonesia's policy formulation against …

Women are universally considered good microfinance clients. The reason behind this is a popular belief in the … microfinance industry that women are better credit risks than men. Female targeting has been suggested to generate higher repayment … suggest that women are indeed better microfinance borrowers as they have significant negative relationship with MFI portfolio …

The preference of microfinance institutions for women borrowers is generally attributed to two reasons: women borrowers … women more in low trust countries, suggesting that women are targeted to offset low social trust. We also examine how the …