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Book Synopsis.- Part I Introductory Matters.
.- On Financial Inclusion and Global Development: Introductory Remarks.
.- An Overview of SDGs 8.10.1 and 8.10.2.
.- Forward and Backward Linkages of Financial Inclusion, Fintech, and Sustainable Development Goals: A Bibliometric Analysis and Concept Mapping.
.- Part II Conceptual Concerns.
.- Financial Inclusion Reduces Inequality and Poverty: Myth or Reality?.
.- Driving Financial Inclusion through Frugal Innovation to Achieve UN SDG Target 8.10.
.- The Benefits and Costs of Fintech.
.- Digital Finance, Agriculture and Inclusive Development.
.- Financial Literacy, Economic Inequality, and Trust in Government.
.- Financial literacy, access to microfinance, and Sustainable Development.
.- Part III Global and Regional Topics.
.- Financial Inclusion of Rural Women in the Global South.
.- Assessing the impact of financial inclusion on economic growth in island economies.
.- Financial Inclusion: Initiatives and Challenges in the BRICS Countries.
.- Assessing Financial Inclusion in 41 African Countries.
.- Part IV Country Studies.
.- The Role of School Banking in Promoting Financial Inclusion: Evidence from Bangladesh.
.- Microenterprises in the agricultural sector and (lack of) insurance: Exploratory case studies from fresh fruit farmers and retailers from Northern Pakistan.
.- Financial inclusion for climate resilience in rural South Africa: a qualitative analysis of opportunities and barriers.
.- Gendered Social Norms and Financial Inclusion in Turkey.
.- Fintech and Financial Inclusion in the Kingdom of Morocco: Demographics and Socioeconomic Characteristics.
.- Mobile Money Transactions for Financial Inclusion in Socio-Economic Development: An Interpretative Account of Two Ghanaian Rural Communities.
.- Part V Driving the Research Forward.
.- Nexus between Financial Inclusion and Economic Activity: A Study about Traditional and Non-Traditional Financial Service Indicators Determining Financial Outreach.
.- Micro- and Macro-Economic Factors of Mobile Money Adoption in the Middle East and North Africa.
.- UN SDG Indicators 8.10 for Measuring Financial Inclusion: An Assessment.
