[PDF] Top 20 Financial Development, Growth and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Ghana

... in financial development and growth are associated with falling mortality rates, and rising life expectancy at birth in the short ...that financial development and growth are ... See full document

... studies from Ghana on the finance- growth hypothesis have tended to generate conflicting ...and growth of the ...finance- growth causal direction is important because identifying ... See full document

... (The Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy – I) report (2007) revealed that although Ghana has experienced drastic relief in poverty since the Compact implementation, Ghana still ... See full document

... in Ghana according to Asiamah & Osei(2007), ...loans from individuals and groups within the context of self-help to start businesses or farming ...available evidence the first credit union in ... See full document

... suffer from small sample ...bank-based financial development and economic growth in Hong Kong, using a testing technique that overcomes the afore-mentioned shortcomings of the previous ... See full document

... productivity growth that Table 2 shows is more strongly associated poverty ...and financial development at the state ...developed financial systems, more competitive product markets, ... See full document

... that financial development may precipitate financial crises in the short run but the long-run effect through economic growth has far reaching impact that outweighs the short term ...credit ... See full document

... Financial development has an indirect impact on the living standards of the poor through its support of economic growth (World Bank, ...between financial development and income ... See full document

... Empirical evidence on the interaction between financial development and poverty reduction has been inconclusive due to mixed ...that financial development can contribute ... See full document

... between financial development and poverty reduction for Cameroon in long run, and unidirectional causality from finance to poverty reduction for Gabon in long ...causality ... See full document

... target poverty reduction as well as economic ...on poverty decrease in ...on poverty, measuring the levels towards the economic growth that reduce ...economic growth contributes ... See full document

... of poverty, housing a large number of poorly, malnourish leading to varied social ...of financial inclusion on poverty reduction in forty nine Sub-Saharan African countries using data spanning ... See full document

... under Financial Sector Strategic Plan (FINSSP), which are yet to realize its ...though Ghana is touted to have achieved a remarkable financial liberalization The main aim of the study is to ... See full document

... national poverty line, Mwanza and Shinyanga poverty incidence is over 40% faced underdevelopment and serious ...of development in education and health (Japan Bank for International Cooperation, ... See full document

... their financial status, lack of collateral, high loan default ratio, high cost of credit, and weak legal and judicial ...nearest financial services provider, lack of infrastructure and socio-economic and ... See full document

... the growth rate of the GDP per capita (Lgdpg) measuring the effect of the economic growth on the indicator of poverty, we can reveal a positive and significant sign for all our samples and for our ... See full document

... different from the hypothesis of FDI-led economic growth, the GDP-driven FDI hypothesis is strongly based on the MNC ...of growth-led FDI, therefore, focuses on locational factors, such as market ... See full document

... Household total food and non-food expenditure was used as the dependent variable in the expected con- sumption estimation. The variable includes a summation of all items purchased directly by household or indirectly ... See full document

... of financial sector and its relation with economic ...between financial sector and economic ...namely, financial sector development has positive impact on economic ...that financial ... See full document

... of financial depth on growth for ten developing countries, namely, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Honduras, Kenya, Thailand, Dominican Republic, and ...between financial ... See full document