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burgeoning trends in mobile phone penetration, KE and poverty. Hence, the IFS definition has incontrovertibly fought its final …
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This paper examines the relationship between changes in the financial sector and the increasing inequality in Germany. For this, first an overview about the development of the main inequality indicators for Germany is given, which show inequality has been rising since the 1980s. Thereafter, the...
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The study examines empirical relationships between income inequality and three features of finance: depth (financial sector size relative to the economy), inclusion (access to and use of financial services by individuals and firms), and stability (absence of financial distress). Using new data...
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This study examines the firm size distribution of US financial institutions. A truncated lognormal distribution describes the size distribution, measured using assets data, of a large population of small, community-based commercial banks. The size distribution of a smaller but increasingly...
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relationships between the remittances and the credit disbursements of the banks. The findings of the study clearly show that … remittances assist to enhance the amount of credit disbursements of the banking sector in Bangladesh. The normalized co …. Finally, Granger causality analysis suggests the existence of bidirectional causality between remittances and credit …
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A remarkable fact of the mushrooming remittances market is the absence of commercial banks as relevant players …. Furthermore, remittances have been identified as a potential catalyst for the financial deepening of receiving countries through …-period financial model of remittances without uncertainty. The formulation acknowledges, on the one hand, the altruism component of …
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. We estimate the causal impact of Fintech on poverty and remittances in Kenya. We use data for the period from 2000 … Commercial Bank of Africa and Safaricom Plc. The results show that the use of M-Shwari reduces the per capita poverty ratio by an … annual average of 2% and increases the inflows of annual remittances into Kenya by about 61% …
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