Financial Development, Institutional Quality and Poverty Reduction: Worldwide Evidence

Nasreddine Kaidi, Sami Mensi and Mehdi Ben Amor
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Nasreddine Kaidi: University of Manouba
Mehdi Ben Amor: ECSTRA Laboratory

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2019, vol. 141, issue 1, No 6, 156 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper tests the relationship between financial development, quality of institutions and poverty. To this end, we reviewed the literature and selected indicators of poverty, financial development and quality of institutions. Empirically, we used the three-stage least squares method to examine a sample of 132 countries observed over the 1980–2014 period. First, we proved that financial development does not improve the situation of the poor, while the effect of institution quality on poverty and financial development depends on the choice of indicators. Our robustness analysis pointed to the sensitivity of our results to the different financial development, quality of institutions and poverty indicators.

Keywords: Financial development; Quality of institutions; Poverty; 3SLS; Simultaneous equation modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G20 I32 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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