Financial Inclusion and poverty reduction

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380334
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Kobe University (2016); Nanzan University (2014-2015)
• Principal Investigator: inoue takeshi 神戸大学, 国際協力研究科, 准教授 (20450546)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 金融包摂 / 経済成長 / 貧困削減 / 金融発展

Outline of Final Research Achievements

On the basis of a wide review of prior research and empirical analyses from a new perspective, Ｉ systematically clarified the relations between financial inclusion, economic growth, and poverty reduction in developing countries, and demonstrated a new role for development finance. Specifically, financial inclusion in developing countries, which promotes access and use of basic financial services provided by formal and semi-formal financial intermediaries at a reasonable cost, alleviates a lack of credit among those of the poor who have not yet been incorporated into financial institutions, which increases in income through stimulating their economic activity and results in poverty alleviation.

Free Research Field

経済政策