Financial inclusion can be defined as the access to formal financial services at an affordable cost for all members of an economy, favoring mainly low-income groups. It has been recognized as a critical element in policies for poverty reduction and economic growth. Some successful experiences with financial inclusion reported in developing countries are associated with the use of information an...

Nigeria is a developing nation with population of over 200 million. Of this aggregate, approximately 106 million are aged 18 years and above. adult population, 70 live in rural areas, many do not have adequate access to relevant financial products services. The proportion individuals firms that use or services can be referred as financially inclusive. This study analyzes the impact inclusion do...

India’s post-GFC digital financial inclusion project has been conveyed by an officially constructed polysemic narrative that connotes three distinctive semantic fields: (a) post-colonial Indian developmental policies; (b) financialising neoliberal programmes; and (c) traditional Hindu religious values of money wealth. By assembling a semiological conceptual toolbox from the works Barthes, Eco, ...

Innovations in the financial sector play a critical role promoting economic growth. Studies that have sought to investigate this linkage sub-Saharan Africa produced mixed results. None of existing studies attempted examine possible mediating inclusion explaining relationship between innovations and This paper thus establish if mediates innovation Secondary data from (26 selected SSA countries o...

Transformation towards Financial technology makes possibilities throughout all areas of the economy for growth. Emerging developing economies have seen a fast expansion financial and mobile money services. FinTech projects, which are regarded as some most significant advances in sector, also obviously been driven by growth digital transformation, Mobile wallets address economic infrastructure v...