Financial inclusion and food insecurity: Examining linkages and potential pathways

Considering the worsening levels of food insecurity globally, studies exploring the link between financial inclusion and food insecurity have become imperative. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the effect of financial inclusion on food insecurity using a multidimensional index of financial inclusion and a food insecurity construct obtained from the Food Insecurity Experience Scale. Based on data extracted from the seventh round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, our preferred endogeneity-corrected results indicate that improvements in financial inclusion is associated with a reduction in food insecurity. This finding is consistent across different conceptualisations of food insecurity, alternative weighting schemes and cut-offs for the financial inclusion index and different quasi-experimental methods. Financial inclusion is mainly effective in reducing food insecurity in male-headed and rural-located households. Our findings reveal that entrepreneurship is an important pathway through which financial inclusion influences food insecurity.     

Why does service inclusion matter? The effect of service exclusion on customer indirect misbehavior

In recent years, there has been much conceptual work calling for research on transformative service, and service inclusion in particular. However, quantitative studies focusing on service inclusion are scant, and little is known about customer responses to the opposite of service inclusion, i.e. service exclusion. Taking a transformative research perspective, this study advances the service inclusion literature by focusing on service exclusion and its downstream consequences. We first build the causal link between service exclusion (vs. inclusion) and customer indirect misbehavior, reveal the underlying mechanism, and further identify negative reciprocity beliefs as a boundary condition. The results of three studies suggest that customers who experience service exclusion (vs. inclusion) are more likely to engage in indirect misbehavior (Study 1), and that this effect is mediated by perceived need threat (Study 2). Moreover, the basic effect holds true only for customers with strong negative reciprocity beliefs (Study 3). The findings of this research not only contribute to the literature on transformative services, service inclusion, and social exclusion, but also have managerial implications for marketing practitioners in terms of creating an inclusive service system.     

Blockchain entrepreneurship opportunity in the practices of the unbanked

Two billion people in developing economies have limited or no access to formal financial services, creating cause for substantial research interest in financial inclusion as a complex multidimensional phenomenon. Digital finance technologies, including blockchain, have empowered a type of crescive entrepreneurship that seeks opportunities in relation to financially excluded individuals. This article hypothesizes that nonmonetary causal factors and informal financial practices play a major role in habits of the financially excluded, which would favor blockchain’s disintermediation features over the incumbent approach. After applying fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to determine the conditions related to financial practice and motivations that explain the absence of a formal bank account, I prescribe five sensitivities that blockchain entrepreneurs need to consider when targeting this segment. The value of this article’s approach extends well beyond traditional unisystemic views for financial inclusion, as blockchain-based entrepreneurial opportunities emerge to reveal alternative forms of disintermediated financial services, which we exemplify in startups modeling informal practices. Blockchain entrepreneurship can generate semi-formal financial services that bring financial aspirations closer to people. My perspective is relevant to blockchain entrepreneurs who aim to understand the practices of the unbanked as source information for the development of innovative solutions.     

国内外金融稳定有关问题研究进展与述评

金融稳定是一个古老而又现代、历久弥新的课题,该课题引起广泛关注是与20世纪90年代以来世界各国频仍发生、带来惨重损失的金融危机、风波及动荡联系在一起的.金融稳定方面的理 论研究在国内外尚处于起步的阶段.本文总结了国内外对金融稳定几个主要问题的研究进展状况,重点就金融稳定的框架、货币政策和金融稳定与中央银行和金融稳定等问题梳理、分析和评述了现有中外基本文献,以便促进金融稳定研究的深入.     

A Challenge in Our Time: Issues of Race in Supply Chain Management

This editorial addresses one of the greatest challenges of our time—racial inequality. Logistics and supply chain management (SCM) factor prominently in people’s everyday experiences, as consumers of products and logistics services as well as through participation in logistics and supply chain workforces. These everyday experiences can be quite disparate depending on one’s race. As academics, we have a responsibility to peel back the layers of how these issues of race and diversity impact and interact with supply chain phenomena. This editorial is intended to bolster conversation around these issues. We identify compelling themes that merit consideration and, perhaps, deeper investigation, including race as an individual difference variable in our research, race in SCM talent and leadership, and race and racism in SCM execution. We also call for more research that addresses racial inclusion and equal access in other aspects of SCM in light of its far-reaching influence in the realms of business and society. The time has come to address these pervasive issues affecting organizations and individuals. We also introduce the articles appearing in the current issue of the journal.     

“Superdisabilities” vs “disabilities”? Theorizing the role of ableism in (mis)representational mythology of disability in the marketplace

ABSTRACT

People with disabilities (PWD) constitute one of the largest minority groups. While recognition and inclusion of this group in the marketplace has seen improvement, the effects of (mis)representation of PWD in shaping the discourse on fostering marketplace inclusion of socially marginalized consumers remain little understood. By extending the theory of ableism into the context of PWD representation and applying it to the analysis of the We’re the Super humans advertisement developed for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, this paper examines the relationship between the (mis)representation and the inclusion/exclusion discourse. By uncovering that PWD misrepresentations can partially mask and/or redress the root causes of exclusion experienced by PWD in their lived realities, it contributes to the research agenda on the transformative role of consumption cultures perpetuating harmful, exclusionary social perceptions of marginalized groups versus contributing to advancement of their inclusion.     

杜邦财务分析体系新探

杜邦财务分析体系是一种综合性较强的财务分析方法,随着经济全球化和我国经济的发展,特别是加入世界贸易组织以来,杜邦财务分析体系在我国企业财务分析中的地位越来越重要。然而,随着企业的不断发展,经济业务不断多元化和复杂化,尤其是在"现金为王"的理念下,传统杜邦财务分析体系暴露出很多缺陷,不利于企业作出正确的财务决策和经营决策,应在分析传统杜邦财务体系缺陷的基础上,构建以净资产现金率为核心的新杜邦财务分析体系,新构体系有一定的优越性,但在应用时仍存在一定的局限。     

银行体系、股票市场与固定资产投资——基于三元向量自回归模型的格兰杰因果关系检验

通过把固定资产投资、金融发展和金融结构变量设定为向量自回归模型的三个内生变量,采用格兰杰因果关系检验实证研究了金融发展、金融结构与固定资产投资的因果关系。结果表明:(1)金融发展主动刺激固定资产投资增加,而不是被动跟随投资的增加而发展;(2)仅仅是银行体系的发展具有主动刺激投资增加的功能,股票市场的发展并不具有这个功能;(3)金融结构和投资在格兰杰意义上并不存在因果关系,"金融服务观点"更适合中国金融的现实。     

区域金融生态优化中的地方政府作用分析--以广东省为例

在中国的金融改革和发展进程中,政府在金融生态优化中一直发挥着作用,这一作用应当是具有重要性和主导性。通过对广东省金融生态总体规划和具体策略的阐释,并对其经验进行总结,提出包容性金融生态的概念和相关政策建议。政府应该遵循金融生态优化中的内在规律;需要有的放矢、因地制宜,考虑资源禀赋、经济基础甚至是人文环境的不同;处理好金融生态三大要素间的关系;以包容性金融生态建设的理念来处理金融发展与社会建设的关系。     

Quality financial inclusion and financial vulnerability

Despite existing evidence suggesting that financial inclusion enhances consumers' welfare, there has been no attempt to examine the link between financial inclusion and financial vulnerability, measured along multiple dimensions. We computed more comprehensive indices of financial vulnerability and financial inclusion using polychoric principal component analysis based on a nationally representative financial inclusion survey in South Africa. Results from quantile regressions show that only the top 20% of the financially included had lower vulnerability but the effect was weaker among the more vulnerable categories. Also, the decline in financial vulnerability was less pronounced when financial inclusion was narrowly defined by excluding quality indicators. These findings suggest that financial inclusion is benefitting a few consumers in South Africa which points to the need for a bottom-up approach in designing financial products that improve the welfare of the financially included consumers.     

金融业对英国经济增长和贸易收支的贡献

英国的产业结构和贸易结构已经进入典型的"后工业化时代",金融业在国内市场、离岸市场和海外市场全面发展,在英国各大产业中增速最快,已经取代制造业成为英国经济增长的发动机。金融业还是当代英国最具全球比较优势和国际竞争力的产业,巨大的金融服务贸易顺差有力地改善了英国的贸易收支,金融业已经成为缓解英国贸易失衡的主要缓冲器。     

Targeting Financial Management Training at Low‐Income Audiences

While interest in financial management training programs for low‐income persons has grown in recent years, the specific training needs of low‐income consumers have not been well articulated. This article describes needed training content for such audiences, based on review of previous research and the authors’ experiences in evaluating the Financial Links for Low‐Income People (FLLIP) program. We also illustrate how the choice of financial management training models can seriously impact the subgroups of the low‐income population who attend training, as well as the success of programs in recruiting and graduating participants. The implications of these findings both for financial management curriculum development and for the selection of program models are presented.     

浅议施工企业财务杠杆效应

财务杠杆效应对于建筑施工企业发展起到至关重要的作用,旨在研究财务杠杆效应如何在建筑施工行业发挥作用。结合施工企业的特点,采用实证研究的方法,在建筑施工行业的大背景下,创新性研究如何控制施工企业财务风险的同时,充分利用财务杠杆效应。这对于目前建筑施工有效运用资金有着重要意义。     

积极发展我国票据市场

金融市场主要包括长期资本市场与短期资金市场。在我国 ,股票市场作为长期资本市场的组成部分其发展取得了长足进步 ,而票据市场作为短期资金市场的组成部分其发展还不十分完善。研究票据市场的现状、结构、主体、评级机构等方面对我国票据市场的发展具有重大意义。     

Institutions and Financial Inclusion in Rural Uganda: the Mediating Role of Social Capital

The study examined the mediating role of social capital in the relationship between institutions and financial inclusion of poor households in rural Uganda. Cross-sectional design was adopted and data were collected and analyzed using SPSS/20, MedGraph and Sobel-z test. The findings indicated that social capital partially mediates the relationship between institutions and financial inclusion. Besides, institutions and financial inclusion are significantly related. Thus, managers of financial institutions, financial inclusion working groups, and policy makers should pay more attention to the role of social capital in promoting cooperative behavior among the poor in accessing scarce resources such as financial services.     

Mobile Telephony,Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth

ABSTRACT

The paper employs the multipurpose nature of mobile telephony to investigate its welfare implications using a large sample of households in Ghana. We use seemingly unrelated probit and instrumental variable procedure to test for two related issues: First, we investigate whether mobile telephony promotes pro-poor development by helping households to efficiently allocate consumption and navigate out of poverty. Second, we analyze whether access to a broad array of financial services enhances the capacity of households to live worthwhile lives. The results show that mobile penetration and financial inclusion significantly reduce the probability of a household becoming poor and increase per capita household consumption of food and non-food items. Our results show that the welfare benefits of mobile telephony and financial inclusion are not more pronounced in female-headed households. These insights serve as useful guide for government and other stakeholders who are looking for avenues to improve livelihoods.     

加强高校科研经费财务监管工作对策探析

高校科研经费管理是科研工作持续健康发展的重要保障,财务监管工作是科研经费管理的重要组成部分。针对高校科研经费财务监管工作中存在的薄弱环节,文章从分析高校科研经费管理和使用中存在的问题及其危害性入手,探求原因,提出加强高校科研经费财务监管工作的对策。     

我国银行业“营改增”税制改革思考

由于税负和各种因素的制约,银行业的发展也遇到了瓶颈。为提升第三产业的发展,国家实施了大规模的结构性减税政策,《营业税改征增值税试点方案》明确将金融服务业纳入增值税的扩围改革范围之内。但金融业具体的改革还未纳入到试点城市,本文就金融业"营改增"的背景、意义、税率设计以及国际经验借鉴进行探讨,以期对金融业的发展起到一定的推动作用。     

Perceptions of Marketing and Approaches to Implementation

In the first macroeconomic empirical assessment of the relationship between mobile phones and finance, the author examines the correlations between mobile phone penetration and financial development using two conflicting definitions of the financial system in the financial development literature. With the traditional International Financial Statistics (IFS) (2008) definition, mobile phone penetration has a negative correlation with traditional financial intermediary dynamics of depth, activity, and size. However, when a previously missing informal-financial sector component is integrated into the definition, mobile phone penetration has a positive correlation with informal financial development. Three implications result: There is a growing role of informal finance; mobile phone penetration may not be positively assessed at a macroeconomic level by traditional financial development indicators; and it is a wake-up call for scholarly research on informal financial development indicators that will orient monetary policy.     

我国地方中小企业金融租赁问题探究

金融租赁是一种早就引入中国,但是一直未繁荣发展的业务。金融租赁顺势而为,能够解决我国地方中小企业发展的融资问题,同时还能给投资者提供不可多得的投融资机会,繁荣我国的金融市场。本文探讨中国的地方中小企业金融租赁发展之路,对我国的地方中小企业金融租赁发展的背景、制约因素进行分析,对我国地方中小企业租赁问题进行探讨以及提出相应的建议。