addition to rural and community banks and microfinance institutions. Using recent household survey data, we ascertain the … poverty reduction, in Ghana. By accounting for the potential endogeneity of access to financial services, we show that rural …. In order to more sustainably tackle the goal, highlighted in the Sustainable Development Goals, of eliminating global …

poverty reduction and development; and certainly none outside a solid, prudentially regulated institutional framework. …Only relief achieves short-term poverty reduction, but is ineffective in the long run. Sustainable poverty reduction … can only be attained through well-designed long-term development measures. For example, Indonesia is considered one of the …