The Real Impact of Improved Access to Finance: Evidence from Mexico

By Miriam Bruhn, Inessa Love. 2012

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Urban Studies

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Financial inclusion and poverty: a tale of forty-five thousand households (2020, result): “Thus, our results suggest that across all columns, financial inclusion contributes to poverty alleviation.6 These results are consistent with findings from macro-level studies (see, e.g. Bruhn and Love 2014; Burgess, Pande, and Wong 2005).”
Facilitating Savings for Agriculture: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi (2015, positive): “Bruhn and Love ð2014Þ find that bank branch openings by consumer durable stores in Mexico leads to increases in the number of informal business owners, in total employment, and in average income.”
Understanding Financial Inclusion in China (2015, background): “Individuals who are not financially excluded are able to invest in education and launch businesses, and this contributes to poverty reduction and economic growth (Beck, Demirgüc-Kunt and Levine, 2007; Bruhn and Love, 2014).”
Banking the Unbanked: Evidence from Three Countries - Working Paper 440 (2016, neutral): “[8] Bruhn, Miriam and Inessa Love (2014).”
Financial Inclusion, Financial Literacy and Economically Vulnerable Populations in the Middle East and North Africa (2019, neutral): “…to individuals’ savings and investment behaviors, labor market decisions, social inequities and women’s empowerment, and even investments in preventative health (e.g., Aportela 1999; Ashraf, Karlan, and Yin 2010; Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Peria 2007; Bruhn and Love 2014; Dupas and Robinson 2013).”
Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth: A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence (2017, background): “In their study of towns in Mexico where bank branches were rapidly opened, Bruhn and Love (2014) use a natural experiment to argue that increased access to financial services leads to an increase in income for low-income individuals by allowing informal business owners to keep their businesses open…”
Financial Inclusion and Economic GROWTH: An International Evidence (2019, background): “Our results are in line with Bruhn and Love (2014)’s study, which document the benefits of the opening of new commercial banks on citizens in Mexico.”
Digital Financial Inclusion and Farmers’ Vulnerability to Poverty: Evidence from Rural China (2020, background): “Expanding access to finance is often cited as one of the most important poverty alleviation policies [1].”