Financial inclusion and stability in MENA: Evidence from poverty and inequality
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...Increased financial inclusion appears to be associated with reduced income inequality in the Middle East and North Africa (e.g. Neaime and Gaysset 2018) but not in parts of Asia (Park andMercado 2018), Sub-SaharanAfrica (Tita andAziakpono 2017), or Latin America (e.g. Dabla-Norris et al. 2015a)....
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...These variables are: GDP per capita growth (Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Levine 2007; Neaime and Gaysset 2018; Park and Mercado 2018; Lacalle-Calderon et al. 2019); trade openness (Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Levine 2007; Jaumotte, Lall, and Papageorgiou 2013; Hermes 2014;Dabla-Norris et al. 2015c; Aslan…...
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...…of control variables that are commonly used in the recent finance-inequality and technology-inequality literature (e.g. Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Levine 2007; Jaumotte, Lall, and Papageorgiou 2013; Dabla-Norris et al. 2015c; Neaime and Gaysset 2018; Park and Mercado 2018; Asongu and Odhiambo 2019)....
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...…inequality-reducing impact of education is mixed and seems to depend on the evolution of rates of return to education i.e. the skill premium (e.g. Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Levine 2007; Jaumotte, Lall, and Papageorgiou 2013; Dabla-Norris et al. 2015c; Neaime and Gaysset 2018; Park and Mercado 2018)....
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...…2018; Turégano andHerrero 2018; LacalleCalderon et al. 2019); inflation (Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Levine 2007; Hermes 2014; Aslan et al. 2017; Neaime and Gaysset 2018; Park and Mercado 2018; Lacalle-Calderon et al. 2019); government spending (Dabla-Norris et al. 2015c; Turégano and Herrero…...
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...Much of this literature contain little empirical evidence (see Morgan & Pontines, 2014; Neaime & Gaysset, 2018), and the relationship between financial inclusion and stability is rather mixed, and the channel through which financial inclusion affects financial stability is still unclear in the…...
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...Neaime and Gaysset (2018) examine how financial inclusion affects poverty levels and income inequality in eight MENA countries over the 2002 to 2015....
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...…in many societies (Bold, Porteous, & Rotman, 2012); thirdly, financial inclusion can help in reducing poverty levels to a desired minimum (Chibba, 2009; Neaime & Gaysset, 2018), and lastly, financial inclusion brings other socio-economic benefits (Kpodar & Andrianaivo, 2011; Sarma & Pais, 2011)....
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...There is a literature that examine the relationship between financial inclusion and financial stability (Cull et al., 2012; Hannig & Jansen, 2010; Neaime & Gaysset, 2018; Ozili, 2018)....
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