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...

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...

This study is an attempt towards an integration of financial development and its effect on the real sector via the transmission mechanism with special reference to developing and emerging market economies. It finds two cointegrating relations between the financial development, output growth and...