The convergence of financial inclusion across provinces in Vietnam: A novel approach.

ABSTRACT: Financial inclusion has generally been considered an effective mechanism to support economic growth and reduce Vietnam's poverty for the last decade. While the importance of financial inclusion to economic growth or macroeconomic stability has been widely examined, it appears that the degree of financial inclusion across Vietnam has not attracted attention from academics and policymakers. In particular, a convergence of financial inclusion across provinces in Vietnam has never been examined. This paper is conducted to examine the static and dynamic distributions of financial inclusion across provinces in Vietnam. The latest three biennial surveys from 2014 to 2018 and a novel approach known as the dynamic kernel density function are used in this study. Our results indicate that Vietnam's e

SUBMITTER: Nguyen NT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8389425 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature