The relationship between financial inclusion and Sudanese economic growth 2006-2020

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The paper shed light on the causal relationship between financial inclusion, and economic growth in Sudan from 2006 to 2020.

The paper seeks to answer the following question: What is the impact of financial inclusion indicators on economic growth in Sudan? Therefore, In order to answer this question, the paper aimed to find out the causal relationship between some indicators of financial inclusion including (the number of ATMs, the number of Sudanese bank branches and the ease of doing business index) in addition to the growth of the Sudanese economy proxies by RGDP to test the causal relationship between the variables of the study, the paper employed the Vector Auto regression Model (VAR) methodology and also adopted the Angel Granger Causality Test through which the outputs of the Eviews10 showed that the number of bank branches and the ease of doing business index affect the growth of the Sudanese economy, and also showed that there is a relationship between the number of ATMs and economic growth, and accordingly the paper recommended the provision of banking services represented in facilitating the requirements for opening bank accounts as well as facilitating services for obtaining business licenses, in addition to the delivery of banking services to all regions of Sudan.