The role of financial inclusion and poverty reduction in selected Asian countries / Aina Mardiah Azmi

Using panel data analysis, this project will empirically evaluate the effect of financial inclusion (FI) on poverty reduction in a group of Asian countries from 2011 to 2020. According to the regression results, the number of active ATM and deposit accounts picked from three Asian nations were the most robust predictors of financial inclusion in poverty reduction. This concept paper has several objectives which are a brief description of the selected Asian countries' nature of poverty, the roles of financial inclusion to reducing the poverty, and an analysis facing the challenges and recommendations for a sustainable poverty reduction in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. For the recommendations, the borrowers from commercial banks can be included as the financial inclusion's indicators or other FI indicators either in access or usage dimension. The researcher also suggests that the government concentrate on poverty reduction through improving infrastructure that will improvise the banking services.