Financial Inclusion and Household Consumption: Case of Nigeria

Ousmane Seck (), Ismaeel Ibrahim Naiya and Aliyu Dahiru Muhammad ()
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Ousmane Seck: The Islamic Research and Teaching Institute (IRTI)
Ismaeel Ibrahim Naiya: Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Aliyu Dahiru Muhammad: International Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance, Bayero University Kano
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No 2017-3, Working Papers from The Islamic Research and Teaching Institute (IRTI)

Abstract: The recent awareness of the important role of finance in economic growth and development has stimulated interests of policy-makers and other stakeholders in expanding households’ financial access for inclusion economic growth and economic development. This paper is a contribution to the scant literature using micro-data to investigate the effects of financial inclusion on economic outcomes of households. Based on the data of Living Standards and Demographic survey of 2010 and 2012, this paper focuses on households’ welfare through consumption in Nigeria. The study employs the panel data approach to analyze the effects of financial inclusion on household consumption, controlling for the endogeneity of the financial inclusion itself, and concludes that access to finance has a positive impact on households’ consumption. This has implication for policy makers and practitioners to use access to finance as a tool for poverty reduction in the Nigeria.

Keywords: Financial Inclusion; Nigeria; Household Consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C26 D10 E21 G02 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2017-02-20, Revised 2017-08-20
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