Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123530 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/11/015
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
This paper examines how domestic, foreign, private and public investments affect income-inequality through financial intermediary dynamics. With the exception of financial allocation efficiency, financial channels of depth and activity are good for the poor as they diminish estimated household income-inequality. Financial size does not have a significant income-redistributive effect. Financial efficiency has a disequalizing effect, implying policies designed to improve the allocation of mobilized funds only benefit the rich to the detriment of the poor. The use of financial and investment dimensions previously missing in the literature provide new insights into the finance-inequality nexus. Policy implications are discussed.
Subjects: 
Finance
Investment
Poverty
Inequality
Africa
JEL: 
D60
E25
G20
I30
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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