Finance, inequality and the poor

By Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Ross Levine. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Improving Access to Banking: Evidence from Kenya (2013, neutral): “In addition, as emphasized by Beck et al. (2007), country-level measures of financial outreach assume a uniform distribution of bank outlets within a country’s various areas and across its population, ignoring that bank branches are concentrated in urban areas and that bank expansions tend to…”
Financial inclusion, financial development, and economic diversification in Nigeria (2017, background): “Beck et al. (2007) empirically show that “countries with deeper financial systems experience faster reductions in the share of the population that live on less than one dollar a day.”
Financial Development and Poverty Reduction: Can There be a Benefit without a Cost? (2008, background): “It is worth noting that unlike other studies on the impact of financial development on poverty (for example, Honohan, 2004; Beck et al., 2007), which focus only on the private credit ratio, we also use the liquidity ratio and the total domestic credit ratio with a view to assessing whether…”
Microfinance and economic development (2017, background): “Countries with greater financial development tend to have less poverty (Beck et al. 2007), but it is unclear what the role of microfinance is.”
The Role of ICT in Modulating the Effect of Education and Lifelong Learning on Income Inequality and Economic Growth in Africa (2019, positive): “Following the literature on inequality (Beck et al., 2007, Meniago & Asongu, 2018; Tchamyou, 2019b) we use the common Gini index as a measurement of income inequality and the real GDP growth as a proxy for economic growth.”
Determinants of bank profitability in transition countries: What matters most? (2016, background): “…at the early stages of economic development only the rich can afford to access finance, however, with higher levels of economic development more people can access finance thus suggesting a non-linear link between financial development, income inequality and economic development (Beck et al., 2007).”
Does Trade Reduce Poverty?: A View from Africa (2014, background): “Looking at trade openness, the results are in line with Beck et al. (2007) and Kpodar and Singh (2011): they suggest that greater trade openness is not significantly associated with either lower or higher levels of poverty.”
Financial development, real sector, and economic growth (2015, background): “5547 (8) Private credit by banks to GDP 37.”
Inequality and Labor Market Institutions (2015, positive): “20 The empirical finance literature, however, finds a negative link between broad proxies for financial development (such as private sector credit to GDP) and inequality measured by the Gini coefficient (see Beck, Demirguc-Kunt, and Levine, 2007).”
Remittances and Financial Development:;Substitutes or Complements in Economic Growth? (2012, neutral): “Moreover, remittances seem to further financial development in recipients’ countries which, in turn, has been shown to play a key role in reducing poverty, inequality and fostering economic growth (Aggarwal et al. 2006; Beck et al. 2007; Gupta et al. 2009).”