Considering the worsening levels of food insecurity globally, studies exploring the link between financial inclusion and food insecurity have become imperative. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the effect of financial inclusion on food insecurity using a multidimensional index of financial inclusion and a food insecurity construct obtained from the Food Insecurity Experience Scale. Based on data extracted from the seventh round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, our preferred endogeneity-corrected results indicate that improvements in financial inclusion is associated with a reduction in food insecurity. This finding is consistent across different conceptualisations of food insecurity, alternative weighting schemes and cut-offs for the financial inclusion index and different quasi-experimental methods. Financial inclusion is mainly effective in reducing food insecurity in male-headed and rural-located households. Our findings reveal that entrepreneurship is an important pathway through which financial inclusion influences food insecurity.

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金融包容性和粮食不安全：检查联系和潜在途径

考虑到全球粮食不安全程度不断恶化，探索普惠金融与粮食不安全之间联系的研究势在必行。本文通过使用金融包容性的多维指数和从粮食不安全经验量表获得的粮食不安全结构来研究金融包容性对粮食不安全的影响，从而为文献做出了贡献。根据从第七轮加纳生活水平调查中提取的数据，我们首选的内生性校正结果表明，金融包容性的改善与粮食不安全状况的减少有关。这一发现在不同的粮食不安全概念、替代加权方案和金融普惠指数的截止点以及不同的准实验方法中是一致的。普惠金融主要可有效减少男户主家庭和农村家庭的粮食不安全状况。我们的研究结果表明，创业是普惠金融影响粮食不安全的重要途径。