This study analyzes different individual's factors that impact savings conditions, based on two innovative surveys performed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for the cities of Lima and Mexico D.F. The aim of this research is fourfold: first, to understand how different individual's...

We rely on demand and supply-side information to measure the extent of financial inclusion at country level for eighty-two developed and less-developed countries. We postulate that the degree of financial inclusion is determined by three dimensions: usage, barriers and access to financial...

This research study has various objectives. First, to highlight the importance of investment in infrastructure on economic growth. Second, to underscore the need for a competitive and transparent process to implement these investments, which must be aimed at efficiency and obtaining a proper...

This paper analyses the three dimensions determining financial inclusion in the case of Argentina, from a micro-economic perspective. On the supply side, formal financial services are accessed through traditional channels: branches and ATMs, with an as-yet incipient regulation for financial...

El presente estudio pretende analizar, desde un punto de vista microeconomico, las tres dimensiones que determinan la inclusion financiera para el caso de Argentina. Desde el lado de la oferta se tiene que el acceso a los servicios financieros formales se basa en los canales tradicionales:...

New ways of understanding banking, technological improvements, and regulation yield new means of interaction between customers and banks through outsourcing agreements. This paper provides the first harmonised database with information on the number of banking correspondents by country, which...

Nuevas formas de entender la banca, los avances tecnologicos y la regulacion dan lugar a nuevos medios de interaccion entre los clientes y los bancos a traves de contratos de externalizacion. Este documento ofrece la primera base de datos armonizada con el numero de corresponsales bancarios por...