Financial inclusions towards economic growth in Malaysia / Muhamad Ikram Sapini

This study is been conduct to see the relationship between the financial inclusions and economic growth in Malaysia. The financial inclusions can be divided into three that is usage, penetration and availability. It can be say to help the poor household and end user to use the bank product such as deposit account, automated teller machine and loan that been provided to household to make a consumption. This study to see is there any relationship between the three components of financial inclusions that is penetration of the banking sector in terms of the number of deposits and credit accounts, access of financial services in terms of the penetration of ATMs and bank branches over geographic boundaries and extent of the usage by the general public of all these services with the gross domestic product per capita with that is economic growth. The research study observation is over 12 year period from 2004 to 2015. A total of 12 years of observations for each variable were taken into consideration for this study by
using time series data for the country of Malaysia. The data has been analyzed by using E-views 8 to do descriptive, unit root test, multiple regression, correlation analysis and test on assumption. This research study expected to have a positive relationship of financial inclusions on independent variables which are usage, access and penetration, and dependent variable which is economic growth performance per capita in Malaysia.