Thinking Inside the Box: A Closer Look at Financial Inclusion and Household Income.

Using national representative household finance survey data covering more than 6200 Chinese households, we first construct a new multidimensional indicator for financial inclusion. Then we examine the effect of financial inclusion on household income. Our results elicit several findings. First, fina...

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Publicado en:Journal of Development Studies Vol. 55; no. 7; pp. 1616 - 1632
Autores principales: Zhang, Quanda, Posso, Alberto
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2019
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        Income inequality
        Households
        Economic indicators
        Multidimensional databases
        Chinese economic policy
        Twenty-first century
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          Income inequality
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          Multidimensional databases
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