A two-day long ADBI Sessions on Financial Inclusion, Financial Literacy, and Infrastructure Development on Asia and the Pacific Economies begin on May 11 at Suzhou, PRC.
The sessions will disseminate research by ADBI staff and organise discussion platforms for financial inclusion, financial literacy, and infrastructure development to identify policies that support inclusive and sustainable growth in the region.
The sessions will cover financial literacy in Japan: determinants and impacts, impacts of financial literacy on loan demand of financially excluded households in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), road infrastructure, market integration, and productivity: evidence from the PRC’s manufacturing sector, high-speed rail, market access, and economic growth, microfinance programs and women’s socio-economic empowerment: new evidence from the rural middle hills of Nepal and quantile regression analysis of the impacts of financial literacy and digital finance across the wealth distribution in the PRC.
There will be 40 participants, according to ADBI.
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