Financial Inclusion, Financial Literacy and Economically Vulnerable Populations in the Middle East and North Africa

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Lyons ◽  
Josephine Kass-Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Financial Inclusion

scholarly journals Gender disparity effect among financially included (and excluded) women in Middle East and North Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 342-348
Author(s):  
Antonella Francesca Cicchiello ◽  
Amirreza Kazemikhasragh ◽  
Anna Maria Fellegara ◽  
Stefano Monferrà
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Gender Disparity ◽  
High Income ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Probit Models ◽  
The World ◽  
Study Support ◽  
New Evidence

Gender in financial inclusion is an evolving field of research. This study uses the World Bank’s Global Findex database, along with probit models, to investigate the presence of gender inequality on financial inclusion and its causes. In the Middle East and North Africa samples, we present new evidence of lower women’s financial inclusion. Being a man, older, well-educated and with a high-income increases the likelihood of being financially included. The findings of this study support policymaker in defining policies to promote financial inclusion in the Middle East and North Africa. Increasing the level of financial inclusion enhances the level of official savings in countries, which in turn promotes development.

scholarly journals Factors Determining Female Labor Participation in Job Market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Countries

Populasi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Almiman Anas Abdulrahman ◽  
Pradikta Aris Chandra ◽  
Altamimi Raeef
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Mena Countries ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
Positive Correlations

Women’s engagement in the broader social life is part of policy objectives in today’s world that most governments aim to achieve. Likewise, the issue is crucial in most Muslim majority countries, especially in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). As the regions have characteristics of a smaller number of women’s participation in the formal labor market than many other countries, this study investigated the factors that determine women’s participation by measuring data of governance, industrial transformations, and education from 1980 to 2014. This study used robust panel data methods to calculate the interdependencies of those variables. Based on the estimation, prominent factors that have positive correlations with the participation are good governance and the transitions from agriculture to industrial and service economy. Meanwhile, financial literacy and education have limited impacts on participation.

Press Propaganda and Subaltern Agents of Pan-Islamic Networks in the Muslim Mediterranean World prior to World War I

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odile Moreau
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
World War I ◽  
North Africa ◽  
World War ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
The Press ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores movement and circulation across the Mediterranean and seeks to contribute to a history of proto-nationalism in the Maghrib and the Middle East at a particular moment prior to World War I. The discussion is particularly concerned with the interface of two Mediterranean spaces: the Middle East (Egypt, Ottoman Empire) and North Africa (Morocco), where the latter is viewed as a case study where resistance movements sought external allies as a way of compensating for their internal weakness. Applying methods developed by Subaltern Studies, and linking macro-historical approaches, namely of a translocal movement in the Muslim Mediterranean, it explores how the Egypt-based society, al-Ittihad al-Maghribi, through its agent, Aref Taher, used the press as an instrument for political propaganda, promoting its Pan-Islamic programme and its goal of uniting North Africa.

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