Access to Finance: An Empirical Analysis

Rashmi Umesh Arora ()
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Rashmi Umesh Arora: University of Bradford, UK.

The European Journal of Development Research, 2014, vol. 26, issue 5, 798-814

Abstract: Financial access is gradually being recognised as an important input to economic development. Using World Bank (2007) database, this study measures the extent of financial access in developed and developing countries. Further, it develops a new Socio-Economic Development Index, which incorporates financial access. It then compares socio-economic development of various countries as shown by Human Development Index (HDI) alone and by the new index incorporating financial access. The results of the study show that Spain ranks highest in terms of financial access followed by Belgium, Malta and South Korea. In addition, the ranking of countries in terms of HDI changes if financial access is taken into account.

Date: 2014
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