Financial inclusion and poverty: A tale of forty-five thousand households

SA Churchill, VB Marisetty - Applied Economics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Using a new nationally representative survey data covering approximately 45,000 Indian
households, we examine the effects of financial inclusion on poverty. We construct a …

Social and economic empowerment of women through financial inclusion: empirical evidence from India

M Pal, H Gupta, YC Joshi - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Women empowerment becomes an important policy discussion in development
economics and modernization theory. The empowerment of women can lead to an increase …

Determinants of financial inclusion in rural India: does gender matter?

S Kaur, C Kapuria - International Journal of Social Economics, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose Since finance is an efficacious instrument for economic development, social
inclusion and women empowerment, the present paper examines the determinants of …

Efficiency of Indian banks in fostering financial inclusion: an emerging economy perspective

N Agarwala, S Maity, TN Sahu - Journal of Financial Services Marketing, 2024 - Springer
Financial inclusion paves the path towards inclusive growth. The Government of India
launched the Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) in 2014 with a similar aim. The …

Financial inclusion in India: an analysis from the user-side perspective

R Singh, H Mallick - International Journal of Social Economics, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The aim of the paper is to examine the status and determinants of financial
inclusion in India by using the recent micro-level survey data. Design/methodology …

Bank accounts for the unbanked: Evidence from a big bang experiment

Y Chopra, N Prabhala, PL Tantri - Indian School of Business WP, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
We study PMJDY, a “big bang” intervention in India that aimed to eliminate financial
exclusion in one shot by giving bank accounts to all its unbanked. Us-ing proprietary …

Exploring the gender dimension in financial inclusion in India: Insights from the global findex database

S Sarkar, S Nair, MVV Rao - Journal of Development Policy …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite great progress in recent years in improving access to formal financial services in
developing countries, there is still significant access and usage disparity between men and …

The fourth chronic poverty report: Growth

AW Shepherd, K Bird, L DaCorta, V Diwakar, A Dubey… - 2019 - econstor.eu
The Chronic Poverty Report on Growth aims to put in front of economic policymakers in
developing countries and international agencies evidence about the type of growth and the …

Determinants of financial inclusion among women-owned enterprises: a case study of the informal sector

FK Sherwani, SZ Shaikh, S Behal… - Arab Gulf Journal of …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the determinants of financial inclusion
among women-owned informal enterprises in India. Design/methodology/approach The …

Banking the unbanked: The performance and impact of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) schemes on poor households in Bihar

S Dutta, BS Mehta - IASSI-Quarterly, 2021 - indianjournals.com
The paper examines the impact of PMJDY scheme on the poor households' financial
behavior in terms of savings, borrowings, and active use of bank accounts based on a …