Fintech : Financial Inclusion or Exclusion? /

This paper examines the role of Fintech in financial inclusion. Using Global Findex data and emerging fintech indicators, we find that Fintech has a higher positive correlation with digital financial inclusion than traditional measures of financial inclusion. In the second stage of our empirical inv...

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Hovedforfatter: Tok, Yoke Wang
Andre forfattere: Heng, Dyna
Format: Tidsskrift
Sprog:English
Udgivet: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2022.
Serier:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2022/080
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