Assessing the Impact of Government Schemes on Financial Inclusion in India: A Bibliometric Review
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This bibliometric review paper aims to analyze the research landscape on financial inclusion (FI) and government scheme (GS) with a focus on India, through the examination of 92 documents for the period published between 2010 and 2024 in the Scopus database. The study finds the dominant themes, key authors, influential institutions, and most cited publications in this domain. The authors have employed co-citation analysis, bibliographic coupling, and co-occurrence of keyword analysis with the help of a VOS viewer has been done in the study. The findings reveal that Pradhan Mantri Jan Jhan Yojana (PMJDY) has been studied dominantly in this theme but still more research in this field by taking up studies related to other FI initiatives is necessary. Various research gaps predominantly which are related to FI such as the inclusion of technology adoption in this field and comparison with other country’s government initiatives are still underexplored. However, the study also faces certain limitations which as the employment of a single database and the exclusion of some important keywords, which leads to deploying a more inclusive approach to ensure a comprehensive involvement of relevant pieces of literature in the dynamic nature of this research field.
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