Did COVID-19 Accelerate Digital Finance and Financial Inclusion? Cross-Country Evidence from Emerging Market

This dataset accompanies the article “Did COVID-19 Accelerate Digital Finance and Financial Inclusion? Cross-Country Evidence from Emerging Market”. It contains descriptive statistics, regression results, figures, and supplementary materials for the empirical analysis conducted between 2018–2024. The dataset includes: Figures: Country-specific data visualizations (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana). Tables: Descriptive statistics, regression outputs, dummy regressions, Asia–Africa comparison, and COVID dummy analysis. Workbooks: Consolidated Excel files with financial inclusion indicators, digital finance measures, and regression inputs. EViews file: Raw econometric model (with time series and regression commands). Data Sources:The dataset is derived from publicly available sources including: World Bank Open Data (https://data.worldbank.org) IMF Data (https://www.imf.org/en/Data) Publicly accessible cryptocurrency market databases Usage License:This dataset is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, allowing reuse with proper citation.