Financial deepening and poverty reduction: causality linkage in the case of Malaysia

• Main Authors: Mustafa, Siti Aisyah, Zainal, Nur Syuhada, Kassim, Salina
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); HG Finance; HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/42071/1/Tibec_4_Abstract_Book.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/42071/6/Tibec_4_Full_paper.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/42071/

This paper investigates the interaction between financial deepening and poverty reduction in the case of Malaysia from period of 1975 to 2012. We employed ARDL bounds testing approach to find long run cointegration as well as Granger causality to discover the short run and long run dynamics between...