Inequality in Financial Inclusion and Income Inequality
Goksu Aslan,
Corinne Delechat,
Monique Newiak and
Fan Yang
No 2017/236, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund
Abstract:
We investigate the link between gender inequality in financial inclusion and income inequality, with three contributions to the recent literature. First, using a micro-dataset covering 146,000 individuals in over 140 countries, we construct novel, synthetic indices of the intensity of financial inclusion at the individual and country level. Second, we derive the distribution of individual financial access “scores” across countries to document a “Kuznets”-curve in financial inclusion. Third, cross-country regressions confirm that our measure of inequality in financial access is significantly related to income inequality, above and beyond other factors previously highlighted in the literature.
Keywords: WP; Gini coefficient; Financial inclusion; financial development; gender inequality; income inequality; sub-Saharan Africa; inequality data; financial access; market Gini; cumulative distribution function; Income distribution; Financial sector development; Global (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32
Date: 2017-11-08
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