Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250105 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/21/081
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
The study assesses how financial institution dynamics have affected poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1980-2019. In order to increase for policy relevance of the study, three financial development indicators are used, namely: financial institutions depth, financial institutions access and financial institutions efficiency. The adopted empirical strategy is a quantile regressions approach which enables the study to assess how financial institutions dynamics affect poverty and the severity of poverty throughout the conditional distribution of poverty and severity of poverty. The findings show various tendencies, inter alia: (i) financial institutions depth (efficiency) consistently decreases the severity of poverty (poverty headcount) and (ii) financial institutions access consistently decreases both poverty and the severity of poverty and the decreasing effect increases with increasing levels of poverty in the top quantiles and throughout the conditional distribution of the severity of poverty. Policy implications are discussed with respect of SDG1 on poverty reduction.
Subjects: 
financial development
poverty alleviation
Africa
JEL: 
G20
I10
I20
I30
O10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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