The purpose of this research study has been to expand our understanding of the finance-growth "nexus" to finance-growth-inequality "nexus" in the presence of both the formal and the informal sources of borrowing. Using empirical evidence of IHDS Survey data for two rounds the study attempts to...

In this paper we show, using a Machine Learning Framework and utilising a substantial corpus of media articles on Brexit, confirmed evidence of co-integration and causality between the ensuing media sentiments and British currency. The novel contribution of this paper is that along with...

The paper provides an analysis of the simultaneous existence of the formal and the informal sources of finance and their implications for the rate of growth in an economy. Our main result is that in the presence of two sources of borrowing, viz. formal banking sector with lower interest rate...