Determining the Financial Inclusion Output of Banking Sector of Pakistan—Supply-Side Analysis

Fareeha Adil and Abdul Jalil
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Fareeha Adil: Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Abdul Jalil: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Islamabad 44000, Pakistan

Economies, 2020, vol. 8, issue 2, 1-20

Abstract: Financial inclusion is the process of including the people who lack formal financial services. The concept of financial inclusion emerged globally in the times of millennium and is defined as the availability and usage of formal financial services. It essentially facilitates economic growth; the financially included individuals can invest in business, education, and entrepreneurship, which can pave way to poverty alleviation and economic development. In the context of Pakistan, a developing economy of South Asia, the financial landscape presents a grim picture of financial inclusion where only 16 percent of the population is financially included. Despite the current focus of policies and regulations devoted to enhancing access to finance in Pakistan from the supply side, the current state of financial inclusion is limited. Therefore, this study investigates the financial inclusion process for Pakistan from the supply side. We analyze the supply-side dimension of access by employing econometric technique of autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) and using time series data of banking sector of Pakistan. Our empirical findings suggest that the greater the size, geographic outreach, and demographic outreach of the banks, the greater the contribution to the financial inclusion. Additionally, improvement in soft consumer loans and increase in small-sized advances reinforces the financial inclusion process.

Keywords: financial inclusion; banking sector of Pakistan; supply side; ARDL (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E F I J O Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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