Driving Financial Inclusion: Technology as an Indicator of Financial Ecosystem Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic in India

This paper examines India's level of digital access to financial services as compared to other Asian countries. The study also intends to analyse whether COVID-19 has influenced the usage trend of the selected digital payment indicators in India. Data has been collected from the World Bank Glob...

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Published in:International journal of e-business research 2022-01, Vol.18 (1), p.1-15
Main Authors: Parvathy, V K, Kumar, Jyothi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
COVID-19
Indicators
Online banking
Pandemics
Trend analysis
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Summary:This paper examines India's level of digital access to financial services as compared to other Asian countries. The study also intends to analyse whether COVID-19 has influenced the usage trend of the selected digital payment indicators in India. Data has been collected from the World Bank Global Findex Database and RBI bulletins. Cross country descriptive analysis was used for studying India's digital financial access against the other Asian countries. Event study methodology followed by trend analysis was employed to examine whether COVID-19 has impacted the digital payment indicators' usage in India. The findings of the study indicated that India's position in digital financial access needs to be improved. It was further identified that COVID-19 has increased the usage of digital modes for financial transactions in India. There has been a significant increase in the usage volume of mobile banking after the declaration of the pandemic. Govt. can frame its action plans to make use of the opportunity created through the pandemic to improve digital financial access in India.
ISSN:1548-1131
1548-114X
DOI:10.4018/IJEBR.316147