Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Rural Development

Part I: Setting the Scene.- Chapter 1: Unleashing Potential: The Transformative Power of Financial Inclusion in Fostering Sustainable Rural Development.- Part II: Food Insecurity, Resilience and Health.- Chapter 2: The Discouraged Borrower Syndrome and Rural Household Food Insecurity: Examining the Mediating Role of Financial Inclusion.- Chapter 3: The Effect of Financial Inclusion on Resilience of Rural Inhabitants.- Chapter 4: Examining the Link Between Financial Inclusion and Mental Distress: Empirical Evidence From Rural South Africa.- Part III: Energy Poverty And Transition.- Chapter 5: Financial Inclusion and Rural Energy Poverty Reduction in Latin America.- Chapter 6: Financial Inclusion and Energy Poverty in Rural Tanzania.- Part IV: Gender Equality And Women’s Empowerment.- Chapter 7: Do Women Require Specialized Digital Financial Instruments to Meet their Needs? Insights from Ghana.- Chapter 8: Digital Financial Inclusion and Women’s Economic Empowerment in Northern Ghana: The Experience of Rural Women in the Shea Value Chain.- Chapter 9: Digital Literacy and Financial Inclusion among Smallholder Farmers: Exploring Gender Dichotomy in Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria.- Chapter 10: Gender and Geographical Disparities in Financial Inclusion in Rural sub-Saharan Africa: A Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder (KOB) Decomposition.- Chapter 11: Reinvigorating Sustainable Rural Development with Financial Inclusion: A Case of Women's Empowerment.- Part V: Labour, Productivity, And Investment.- Chapter 12: Effect of Financial Inclusion on On-Farm Labour Force Productivity and Employment.- Chapter 13: Financial Inclusion and Self-employment in Rural Ghana.- Chapter 14: Access to Financial Services and Economic Performance of Livestock Farms: Exploring Potential Pathways.- Chapter 15: Financial Inclusion, Agricultural Land Ownership and Investment Decisions.- Chapter 16: Financial Inclusion and Adoption of Integrated Crop-Livestock Farming Systems in India.- PART VI: Digital Finance And The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).- Chapter 17: Does Digital Financial Inclusion Improve Food Security and Household Resilience?.- Chapter 18: Mobile Money Adoption, Farm Performance and Household Welfare in Northern Ghana.- Chapter 19: Does digital financial technology improve access to finance among households experiencing idiosyncratic health shocks in Ghana?.- Chapter 20: Mobile Money Regulation and Financial Behaviours of Rural Population: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa.- PART VII: Conclusion.- Chapter 21: From Rural Poverty to Prosperity: Reflections on Evidence, Policy and the Path Forward.