There is growing evidence that appropriate financial services have substantial benefits for
consumers, especially women and poor adults. This paper provides an overview of financial …

Microfinance is seen as a key development tool, and despite the current deepening crisis
within the industry, it continues to grow in sub-Saharan Africa. We systematically reviewed …

Using panel data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) in 2013, 2015, and
2017 and the digital inclusive finance index developed by Peking University, this study …

This paper provides micro-level evidence on how FinTech adoption affects household
consumption and consumption inequality. Our hypothesis is that through FinTech's payment …

Many policies attempt to help extremely poor households build sustainable sources of
income. Although economic interventions have predominated historically,, psychosocial …

Abstract The Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) database, launched by the World
Bank in 2011, provides comparable indicators showing how people around the world save …

Chapter 1 discussed the ways that reviews examine previous research and other forms of
evidence to answer review questions and how their methods depend upon the questions …

Causal evidence on microcredit impacts informs theory, practice, and debates about its
effectiveness as a development tool. The six randomized evaluations in this volume use a …

Financial inclusion has become an important public policy priority following the recent global
financial crisis. Yet, we know very little of how it impacts soundness of the providers of …

We use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences of hospital
admissions for adults in two datasets: survey data from the Health and Retirement Study …