Essays on financial inclusion in South Africa
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Date
2022
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
South Africa is known to be troubled by numerous persistent economic problems of inequality,
poverty and high unemployment. The country is simultaneously praised for a well-developed
financial sector that provides a sophisticated array of financial products. Financial inclusion
plays an important role to eradicate poverty and boost economic prosperity, yet financial
inclusion is an under-researched topic in South Africa. With the growing recognition of the
role financial inclusion plays on the economy, considerable increase in empirical work that
seeks to examine its relationship with economic development has also been seen. A rather
abandoned area is the macroeconomic relations of FI, particularly due to the fact that, until
recent, there was little to no macroeconomic data on FI. This study adopts a threefold approach
in examining FI in South Africa.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
Keywords
Macroeconomic, Financial inclusion, Inequality, Poverty, South Africa