Financial inclusion (FI) is crucial in reducing extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity, and, looking at the importance of FI, researchers around the globe, for a few decades, have been working on different aspects of FI. The current research aims to examine the scholarly literature on FI through the application of bibliometric analysis. The analysis of the research article is based on the search results using keywords associated with the FI in the Scopus database and analyzed using VOSviewer statistical tool. A total of 356 research articles were selected that were published from 2013 to 2022. The article identified Klapper L. as the most prominent researcher, The World Bank as the leading organization, and United States as the leading country as the key contributors to the area. Further, the article depicts that the research trends are centered around economic growth, financial literacy, and poverty. This article provides policymakers and scholars with areas to explore further, such as factors contributing to financial exclusion, issues with digital FI, and issues with microfinance and mobile money in developing nations. Such insights provide a new pathway to the future researchers to address the issues concerning FI.
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