Financial inclusion and inclusive growth: A review of recent empirical evidence

A Demirgüç-Kunt, D Singer - World bank policy research working …, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
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 …

Small Firms, large Impact? A systematic review of the SME Finance Literature

R Kersten, J Harms, K Liket, K Maas - World development, 2017 - Elsevier
Many people in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) work for Small and Medium-
sized Enterprises (SMEs). Oftentimes, these SMEs have limited access to finance …

Fintech, financial inclusion and income inequality: a quantile regression approach

A Demir, V Pesqué-Cela, Y Altunbas… - The European Journal …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Although theory suggests that financial market imperfections–mainly information
asymmetries, market segmentation and transaction costs–prevent poor people from …

Tackling psychosocial and capital constraints to alleviate poverty

T Bossuroy, M Goldstein, B Karimou, D Karlan… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Many policies attempt to help extremely poor households build sustainable sources of
income. Although economic interventions have predominated historically,, psychosocial …

Financial literacy, financial inclusion, and savings behavior in Laos

PJ Morgan, TQ Long - Journal of Asian Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
This study examines the effects of financial literacy on financial inclusion and savings
behavior in Laos. Compared to previous literature, we use a broader definition of financial …

The long-run poverty and gender impacts of mobile money

T Suri, W Jack - Science, 2016 - science.org
Mobile money, a service that allows monetary value to be stored on a mobile phone and
sent to other users via text messages, has been adopted by the vast majority of Kenyan …

Understanding the average impact of microcredit expansions: A Bayesian hierarchical analysis of seven randomized experiments

R Meager - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019 - aeaweb.org
Despite evidence from multiple randomized evaluations of microcredit, questions about
external validity have impeded consensus on the results. I jointly estimate the average effect …

A multifaceted program causes lasting progress for the very poor: Evidence from six countries

A Banerjee, E Duflo, N Goldberg, D Karlan, R Osei… - Science, 2015 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Working in six countries with an international consortium, we investigate
whether a multifaceted Graduation program can help the extreme poor establish sustainable …

The miracle of microfinance? Evidence from a randomized evaluation

A Banerjee, E Duflo, R Glennerster… - … economic journal: Applied …, 2015 - aeaweb.org
This paper reports results from the randomized evaluation of a group-lending microcredit
program in Hyderabad, India. A lender worked in 52 randomly selected neighborhoods …

Impact of savings groups on the lives of the poor

D Karlan, B Savonitto… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Savings-led microfinance programs operate in poor rural communities in developing
countries to establish groups that save and then lend out the accumulated savings to each …