CONTRIBUTION OF FINANCIAL DEPTH AND FINANCIAL ACCESS TO POVERTY REDUCTION IN INDONESIA

Financial Access and Consumption Smoothing in Indonesia

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Financial Depth – Financial Repression Linkage

Kinship and Financial Networks, Formal Financial Access, and Risk Reduction

Many risks are present in rural developing economies: illness, weather, the sudden need to finance an investment opportunity, etc. Yet for many households in rural developing economies, consumption and investment are insured against short-term, idiosyncratic risks to a large extent, despite limited availability of formal banking and insurance products. The importance of kinship networks in faci...

Financial sector development, savings mobilization and poverty reduction in Ghana

The paper primarily investigates the interrelationship between financial sector development and poverty reduction in Ghana. This is done using time-series data from the World Development Indicators from 1970-2001. The main findings are, first, that even though financial sector development does not Granger-cause savings mobilization in Ghana, it induces poverty reduction; and second, that saving...

financial depth – financial repression linkage