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Does financial inclusion reduce poverty and income inequality in developing countries? A panel data analysis
Omar, Md Abdullah; Inaba, Kazuo - In: Journal of Economic Structures 9 (2020) 37, pp. 1-25
Financial inclusion is a key element of social inclusion, particularly useful in combat-ing poverty and income inequality by opening blocked advancement opportunities for disadvantaged segments of the population. This study intends to investigate the impact of financial inclusion on reducing...
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Does financial inclusion reduce poverty and income inequality in developing countries? : a panel data analysis
Omar, Md Abdullah; Inaba, Kazuo - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 9 (2020) 37, pp. 1-25
Financial inclusion is a key element of social inclusion, particularly useful in combat-ing poverty and income inequality by opening blocked advancement opportunities for disadvantaged segments of the population. This study intends to investigate the impact of financial inclusion on reducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256406
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Access to finance : an empirical analysis
Arora, Rashmi Umesh - In: The European journal of development research : journal … 26 (2014) 5, pp. 798-814
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The effects of financial development in the short and long run
Fulford, Scott Lansing - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2010
Although many view financial access as a means of reducing poverty or increasing growth, empirical studies have produced contradictory results. One problem is that most studies cover only a short time frame and do not consider dynamic effects. I show that introducing credit creates a boom in...
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Products and policies to promote saving in developing countries : combine behavioral insights with good products to increase formal savings in developing countries
Goldberg, Jessica - 2014
Poor people in developing countries can benefit from saving to take advantage of profitable investment opportunities, to smooth consumption when income is uneven and unpredictable, and to insure against emergencies. Despite the benefits of saving, only 41% of adults in developing countries have...
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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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Stock Market Development and Capital Accumulation: Does Law Matter? A Case Study of India
Sarkar, Prabirjit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Stock market development has been an important part of financial liberalisation in the less developed countries (LDCs …). In the pro-liberalisation circle, stock market is assigned to play an important role in the capitalist development of the … economic development there is a call for a better protection of the interests of the shareholders. In this perspective we shall …
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Are Remittances a 'Catalyst' for Financial Access? Evidence from Mexico
Ambrosius, Christian - 2011
In policy discussions, it has frequently been claimed that migrants' remittances could function as a 'catalyst' for financial access among receiving households. This paper provides empirical evidence on this hypothesis from Mexico, a main receiver of remittances worldwide. Using the Mexican...
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Banking the unbanked? Evidence from three countries
Karlan, Dean S.; Dupas, Pascaline; Robinson, Jonathan; … - 2016
We experimentally test the impact of expanding access to basic bank accounts in Uganda, Malawi, and Chile. Over two years, 17%, 10%, and 3% of treatment individuals made five or more deposits, respectively. Average monthly deposits for them were at the 79th, 91st, and 96th percentiles of...
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The Interplay among Savings Accounts and Network-Based Financial Arrangements: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Comola, Margherita; Prina, Silvia - 2023
This paper studies how formal financial access affects network-based financial arrangements. We use a field experiment that granted access to a savings account to a random subset of households in 19 Nepalese villages. Exploiting a unique panel dataset that follows all bilateral informal...
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