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Measurement and spillover effect of digital financial inclusion: a cross-country analysis

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  • Yan Shen
  • C. James Hueng
  • Wenxiu Hu

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Measures of national financial inclusion mostly focus on traditional financial services and ignore the role of digital finance. We incorporate several digital elements of financial inclusion and construct a comprehensive index of digital financial inclusion for 101 countries in 2017. The spatial distribution of the index shows a strong geographical aggregation and a clustered pattern in national income groups. Regions with higher-income countries tend to have better digital financial inclusion. However, digital technology has helped several low-income countries to improve their financial inclusion. But this improvement does not spillover to other low-income countries in the region.

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  • Yan Shen & C. James Hueng & Wenxiu Hu, 2021. "Measurement and spillover effect of digital financial inclusion: a cross-country analysis," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(20), pages 1738-1743, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:28:y:2021:i:20:p:1738-1743
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1853663
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