Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment

Burgess, Robin; Pande, Rohini

doi:10.1257/0002828054201242

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“…The formal savings products are found to increase the productive investment levels and daily expenditures of relatively poor female entrepreneurs in rural Kenya. Their experimental findings support the knowledge in the broader literature on the impacts of financial services on the poor, which is mostly non-experimental, such as Burgess and Pande (2005).…”

Section: B Evidence From Country-specific Studies and Impact Evaluatsupporting

confidence: 77%

Financial Sector Development, Economic Growth, and Poverty Reduction: A Literature Review

Zhuang¹,

Gunatilake

Niimi

et al. 2009

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The views expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Asian Development Bank. Terms of use: Documents inThe ADB Economics Working Paper Series is a forum for stimulating discussion and eliciting feedback on ongoing and recently completed research and policy studies undertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) staff, consultants, or resource persons. The series deals with key economic and development problems, particularly those facing the Asia and Pacific region; as well as conceptual, analytical, or methodological issues relating to project/program economic analysis, and statistical data and measurement. The series aims to enhance the knowledge on Asia's development and policy challenges; strengthen analytical rigor and quality of ADB's country partnership strategies, and its subregional and country operations; and improve the quality and availability of statistical data and development indicators for monitoring development effectiveness.

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Section: B Evidence From Country-specific Studies and Impact Evaluatsupporting

confidence: 77%

Financial Sector Development, Economic Growth, and Poverty Reduction: A Literature Review

Zhuang¹,

Gunatilake

Niimi

et al. 2009

SSRN Journal

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“…8 Similar relationships are found for Canada (Trovato and Vos 1992). 9 Mayer (2003) finds similar correlations in India using state-wide variation in gender-related development indexes.…”

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Suicide and Property Rights in India

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Genicot²

2014

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This paper studies the impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level variation in legal changes to women's property rights, we show that better property rights for women are associated with a decrease in the difference between female and male suicide rates, but an increase in both male and female suicides. We conjecture that increasing female property rights increased conflict within household and this increased conflict resulted in more suicides among both men and women in India. Using individual level data on domestic violence we find evidence that increased property rights for women did increase the incidence of wife beating in India. A model of intra-household bargaining with asymmetric information and costly conflict is consistent with these ˝findings.Siwan Anderson UBC

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“…Beck et al (2011) document that there is no significant association between greater state ownership of banks and financial access of SMEs across a sample of 38 developing countries. On the other hand, Burgess and Pande (2005) find that a 1% increase in the number of rural banking locations in India reduces rural poverty by 0.34%. that government ownership of banks could have harmful effects on productivity, economic growth, and the development of financial systems.…”

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Role of Bank Credit on Local Growth: Do Politics and Crisis Matter?

Önder

Ozyildirim

2012

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a b s t r a c tAlthough state-owned banks are expected to promote the growth of less-developed regions, especially in developing economies, several cross-country studies report that lending by state banks is associated with the inefficient allocation of credit and low levels of development. Further, state banks have been found to lend to their cronies, especially around elections. In this paper, we study the lending activities of stateowned and private banks during the period 1992-2010 and analyze the relationship between the credit these banks provide and local economic growth in Turkey during crisis periods and in election years. We find that the share of state-owned banks in the credit market in crisis periods and local election years is significantly higher than their share in non-crisis and non-election periods. The per capita real credit that state-owned banks provide during crisis years is found to be positively associated with local growth in all provinces. Our results suggest that although state-owned banks might issue loans for political reasons in election periods, they also seem to play an important role in offsetting the adverse effects of economic shocks, especially in developed provinces.

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Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment

Cited by 989 publications

References 36 publications

Financial Sector Development, Economic Growth, and Poverty Reduction: A Literature Review

Financial Sector Development, Economic Growth, and Poverty Reduction: A Literature Review

Suicide and Property Rights in India

Role of Bank Credit on Local Growth: Do Politics and Crisis Matter?

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