Tags : Financial Inclusion

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Financial Inclusion and Contract Terms: Experimental Evidence from Mexico
Live Broadcast Event Summary There is a growing body of work linking financial development to improved economic outcomes and some evidence that shows that this relationship is causal. In response, developing country governments and international development institutions have made financial inclusion a key policy ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2018/mahajan-financial-inclusion-and-contract-terms
Roads do not always lead to riches, suggests Mukherjee on Financial Express
  Financial Express cited a study co-authored by Associate Professor Abhiroop Mukherjee, IEMS Faculty Associate and Department of Finance. Policy-makers assume financing will follow once roads are built, and facilitate best use of new productive opportunities created by new road connectivity. Yet many ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2018/mukherjee-financial-express-if-you-build-roads-will-financing-come-
Forbes: Roads to Riches or Roads to Nowhere?
  Forbes cited a study co-authored by Associate Professor Abhiroop Mukherjee, IEMS Faculty Associate and Department of Finance. The article examined whether financing responds to productivity changes arising from large-scale road-building initiatives. The study found that individuals with less ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2018/mukherjee-roads-to-riches-or-roads-to-nowhere-
Roads and Loans
Live Broadcast Abstract Does the flow of financing respond to changes in productive opportunities even for the world's poor? We answer this question by examining the response of private bank financing to a shock to the rural road network in India, which brought road access to hitherto unconnected villagers. ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2018/mukherjee-roads-loans-india
FinTech and Financial Inclusion in China
Key Points The government’s 2016-2020 financial inclusion plan explicitly encourages digital technologies. Over 95% of China’s on-line population of 731 million, accesses the internet through mobile devices. Market euphoria should be tempered by the reality that the explosive growth in China’s ...
https://iems.ust.hk/tlb20
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