Measuring financial inclusion

Mandira Sarma ()
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Mandira Sarma: Jawaharlal Nehru University

Economics Bulletin, 2015, vol. 35, issue 1, 604-611

Abstract: Using a distance-based approach, this paper proposes an index of financial inclusion (IFI) – a measure of inclusiveness of a financial system that incorporates information on various dimensions of financial inclusion in a single number lying between 0 and 1. The proposed index is easy to compute and is comparable across economies and over time. It is unit-free, monotonous and homogeneous.

Keywords: Financial inclusion; IFI; multi-dimensional index; Euclidean distance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 G0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-03-22
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