Financial Inclusion and Human Development in Indian States: Evidence from the Post-Liberalisation Periods

Title

Financial Inclusion and Human Development in Indian States: Evidence from the Post-Liberalisation Periods

Creator

Barik R.; Lenka S.K.; Parida J.K.

Description

This article examines the existing synergy between financial inclusion and human development in Indian states during the post-liberalisation periods (19932015). Using both principal component analysis and panel data regression models, first, the impact of financial inclusion on human development is measured. Second, the reverse causality from human development to financial inclusion is estimated to know whether human development should be a pre-condition for ensuring greater financial inclusiveness in Indian states. It is found that financial inclusion has a positive and statistically significant impact on human development, along with other control variables such as social sector expenditure, per capita state gross domestic product and capital receipt. However, the lack of urbanisation (measured by the percentage of rural population) has a negative and significant impact on the process of human development in Indian states. On the other hand, since human development has also a significant reverse causal connection with financial inclusion, it is argued that ensuring financial inclusion through urbanisation measures would not only improve the level of human development in Indian states, but it would also sustain the process of inclusive development in itself due to the existing feedback loop with the later. 2022 Institute for Human Development.

Source

Indian Journal of Human Development, Vol-16, No. 3, pp. 513-527.

Date

2022-01-01

Publisher

Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd

Subject

Financial inclusion; human development; Indian states; panel data regression models; principal component analysis (PCA)

Coverage

Barik R., Department of Economics, ICFAI Business School, Telangana, Hyderabad, India; Lenka S.K., Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bannerghatta Road Campus, Karnataka, Bengaluru, India; Parida J.K., Department of Economics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, Gachibowli, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 9737030

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1177/09737030221141241

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