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This study unravels trends and momentum in banking and mobile money channels and uptake of select services and thereafter draws implications for enhancing financial inclusion through Digital Financial Services (DFS). The Rate of Change (ROC) approach was applied to analyze the growth momentum in...
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India's rural households continued to remain financially excluded prominently compared to urban households particularly with respect to their access to institutional credit. Nearly half (44%) of the credit requirements of rural households is still met through non-institutional sources of finance...
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The majority of people in Sub-Saharan Africa does not have a basic bank account and are financially excluded from main …
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Technology has changed how discrimination manifests itself in financial services. Replacing human discretion with … algorithms in decision-making roles reduces taste-based discrimination, and new modeling techniques have expanded access to … human involvement in the development process, and their opacity and complexity can facilitate statistical discrimination …
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The cost of financial intermediation has declined in recent years thanks to technology and increased competition in some parts of the finance industry. I document this fact and I analyze two features of new financial technologies that have stirred controversy: returns to scale and the use of big...
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Technology has changed how discrimination manifests itself in financial services. Replacing human discretion with … algorithms in decision-making roles reduces taste-based discrimination, and new modeling techniques have expanded access to … human involvement in the development process, and their opacity and complexity can facilitate statistical discrimination …
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We ask whether machine learning algorithms improve the efficiency of screening of the loan officers, and thereby help expand access to formal credit. We obtain loan application level data from an Indian bank. To overcome the selective labels problem, we exploit the incentive driven within...
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