As a proud citizen, everyone has right to easy access financial service at an affordable price. But in India, low income people and poor people are unable to use financial service. It further exaggerates the problem of social equilibrium and deprives the weaker sections of their basic rights. In...

Madagascar is a country in Sub-Saharan Africa. With an area of 592,800 square kilometres, it is the world's 46th largest country and the fourth largest island. The country has many natural resources which are unique. Despite on the fact that Madagascar has abundant natural resources which are a...

Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) was introduced in August 2014 and has achieved record success in terms of ensuring almost 100 percent household coverage. The study attempts to examine the success of PMJDY in six Gram Panchayats of Gubbi. The study finds that new accounts have been opened...

Although Tanzania has made notable progress in enhancing access to financial services, the gender gap in financial inclusion persists. This paper examines gender disparities in financial inclusion in Tanzania using descriptive and regression analyses. While the advent of mobile phone money...

Using a nationally representative household survey data set from Ghana, this paper provides empirical evidence regarding the role of financial inclusion or financial exclusion in household welfare. We first compute a multidimensional index of financial inclusion, and then we examine the effect...