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Record W4244382218 · doi:10.22215/etd/2020-14334

Financial Inclusion in Africa

2020· dissertation· en· W4244382218 on OpenAlexafffund
Maximilian Kallenbach

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicFinancial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
FundersUniversity of Ottawa
KeywordsFinancial inclusionInclusion (mineral)UnbankedFinancial literacyGovernment (linguistics)FinanceBusinessDevelopment economicsEconomic growthEconomicsFinancial systemPolitical scienceFinancial servicesSocial scienceSociology

Abstract

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Financial inclusion is a relatively new phenomenon.It was rooted in the Arab Spring movements and had been booming in Africa during the past decade.Today, more than sixty countries worldwide have a financial inclusion strategy, and still, 1.7 billion people around the world remain unbanked.Various influences impact the degree of financial inclusion in a country, i.e. education or political stability.Although financial inclusion is most commonly found in developing countries, scholars have found that a lack of education explains financial exclusion in developed countries.Education as a requirement for financial inclusion is the backbone of my argument.The paper tries to answer the question; does more educational spending lead to more financial inclusion?Although there is evidence from different countries that education remains an important issue in the whole financial inclusion debate, this paper demonstrates no direct relationship between governmental expenditures on education and financial inclusion.Still, the four-country analysis investigates various issues such as the role of government, the role of international institutions, the risks of digitization, and concludes that financial inclusion does not always mean financial inclusion.'Financial education should focus on the most pressing issues -in other words, those that do most harm if not addressed.Some issues are particularly urgent, such as helping consumers to stay safe in this digital age.' Angel Gurria, OECD Secretary-General

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.026

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0000.004
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.224
Teacher spread0.210 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations21
Published2020
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