Financial Inclusion

This volume presents an academic discussion of SDG sub-goal 8.10, which involves increasing financial inclusion via enhancing access to banking, insurance, and other financial services. It examines the challenges that prevent many from accessing financial services and analyses strategies governments, financial institutions, and NGOs can use to promote broader financial inclusion. It also explores economic, sociological, financial, and other social sciences/business perspectives on SDG 8.10 and its key indicators. Featuring global and regional topics and country studies, this volume provides an interdisciplinary approach to financial inclusion that informs, inspires, and catalyzes action for a more inclusive and sustainable global economy.

Examines how business, economics, and social science fields understand, define, and assess SDG 8.10 Identifies strategies to meet SDG 8.10 and key indicators Examines challenges that prevent access to financial services

Autorentext

Glenn W. Muschert, a sociologist of social problems, is Professor of Sociology at Khalifa University of Science & Technology in Abu Dhabi (UAE). His research focuses on social problems, most frequently related to the use of digital technologies. He has authored dozens of academic articles and chapters and has been author or editor of over a dozen academic volumes and special issues of academic journals.

Vijay Pereira, a scholar of international business, is Professor of International and Strategic Human Capital Management in the People and Organizations Department at NEOMA Business School, France. Professor Pereira is currently the elected Vice President of the Academy of International Business (Middle East and North Africa) and the Secretary of the Indian Academy of Management (an affiliate of the Academy of Management, USA).

Vikash Ramiah is an Associate Professor in Finance at University of Wollongong in Dubai. He has published in reputable academic journals and supervises numerous PhD students. He specializes in applied finance and his research areas include financial markets, behavioral finance and environmental/sustainable finance.

Asl Cansn Doker, an economist, is Assistant Professor at Erzincan Binali University (Turkiye). Her research interests include experimental economics, game theory, economic growth and development, applied econometrics.

Inhalt

.- Part I Introductory Matters.
.- On Financial Inclusion and Global Development: Introductory Remarks.
.- An Overview of SDGs 8.10.1 and 8.10.2.
.- Forward and Backward Linkages of Financial Inclusion, Fintech, and Sustainable Development Goals: A Bibliometric Analysis and Concept Mapping.
.- Part II Conceptual Concerns.
.- Financial Inclusion Reduces Inequality and Poverty: Myth or Reality?.
.- Driving Financial Inclusion through Frugal Innovation to Achieve UN SDG Target 8.10.
.- The Benefits and Costs of Fintech.
.- Digital Finance, Agriculture and Inclusive Development.
.- Financial Literacy, Economic Inequality, and Trust in Government.
.- Financial literacy, access to microfinance, and Sustainable Development.
.- Part III Global and Regional Topics.
.- Financial Inclusion of Rural Women in the Global South.
.- Assessing the impact of financial inclusion on economic growth in island economies.
.- Financial Inclusion: Initiatives and Challenges in the BRICS Countries.
.- Assessing Financial Inclusion in 41 African Countries.
.- Part IV Country Studies.
.- The Role of School Banking in Promoting Financial Inclusion: Evidence from Bangladesh.
.- Microenterprises in the agricultural sector and (lack of) insurance: Exploratory case studies from fresh fruit farmers and retailers from Northern Pakistan.
.- Financial inclusion for climate resilience in rural South Africa: a qualitative analysis of opportunities and barriers.
.- Gendered Social Norms and Financial Inclusion in Turkey.
.- Fintech and Financial Inclusion in the Kingdom of Morocco: Demographics and Socioeconomic Characteristics.
.- Mobile Money Transactions for Financial Inclusion in Socio-Economic Development: An Interpretative Account of Two Ghanaian Rural Communities.
.- Part V Driving the Research Forward.
.- Nexus between Financial Inclusion and Economic Activity: A Study about Traditional and Non-Traditional Financial Service Indicators Determining Financial Outreach.
.- Micro- and Macro-Economic Factors of Mobile Money Adoption in the Middle East and North Africa.
.- UN SDG Indicators 8.10 for Measuring Financial Inclusion: An Assessment.