Financial Inclusion in Asia and Beyond

Tony Cavoli is associate professor in economics at the University of South Australia Business School. His research interests span the areas of international macroeconomics and finance, and he has published widely on such topics as exchange rate regimes and monetary policies, capital flows, economic and financial integration, financial inclusion, and development policy. He is currently the deputy editor of the Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy, and is also on the executive board of the American Committee on Asian Economic Studies. Rashesh Shrestha is an economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) based in Indonesia. He conducts research on trade, human capital, and labour markets, and leads various projects related to economic development and integration of Southeast Asian countries. Before joining ERIA, he was an associate lecturer at the Australian National University. He obtained his PhD in applied economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"The editors of Financial Inclusion in Asia and Beyond do an excellent job of compiling papers from the Research Institutions Network of the Economic Research Institute for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (ERIA) into a single, well-organised, systematically presented compendium on the economic effects of financial inclusion."Robert MacNeil, University of Sydney, Australia, Economics Record

• Chapter 1: The nature and landscape of financial inclusion in Asia. Chapter 2: The composition of Financial Inclusion in ASEAN and East Asia: a new hybrid index and some stylised facts. Chapter 3: The Effects of Financial Inclusion on Development Outcomes: New Insights from ASEAN and East Asian Countries. Chapter 4: Financial Inclusion: New Measurement and Cross-Country Impact Assessment Chapter 5: Financial Inclusion and Macroeconomic Volatility in Asia. Chapter 6: Empowering the powerless: Financial inclusion in developing Africa and Asia. Chapter 7: The Poverty-Reducing Effects of Financial Inclusion: Evidence from Cambodia Chapter 8: Financial inclusion and savings in Indonesia. Chapter 9: Financial Inclusion, active bank accounts, and poverty reduction in India.