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Financial inclusion, financial regulation, and education in Bangladesh

Khalily, M. A. Baqui - 2016

Like in many other countries, inclusive finance for inclusive growth has become a policy issue in Bangladesh following the global financial crisis in 2008. Over the past 10 years, intensity of financial deepening and access to financial services has increased. Both banks and microfinance...

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Financial inclusion, regulation, financial literacy, and financial education in Armenia

Nurbekyan, Armen; Hovanessian, Naneh - 2018

Financial inclusion has significantly advanced in Armenia during the last decade. Rural and urban areas, however, have benefited unevenly. The high cost of providing financial services, the lack of physical infrastructure, higher poverty rates, and the low level of financial literacy are the...

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Bank stress tests as an information device for emerging markets: The case of Russia

Fungáčová, Zuzana; Jakubik, Petr - 2012

systemic risk. This paper looks at assessment of banking sector resilience through stress testing. We argue such analyses are …

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Do capital requirements affect bank efficiency? Evidence from China

Pessarossi, Pierre; Weill, Laurent - 2013

This paper contributes to the debate on the effect of capital requirements on bank effieciency. We study the relation … between capital ratio and bank efficiency for Chinese banks over the period 2004?2009, taking advantage of the profound … size of which depends to an extent on the bank's ownership type. Our results therefore suggest that capital requirements …

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Finance and Growth at the Firm Level: Evidence from SBA Loans

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2015

We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history,...

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Financial stability and financial inclusion

Morgan, Peter J.; Pontines, Victor - 2014

inclusion (together with some control variables) on some measures of financial stability, including bank non-performing loans … and bank Z-scores. We find some evidence that an increased share of lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs …

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Financial inclusion, regulation, and education in Sri Lanka

Kelegama, Saman; Tilakaratna, Ganga - 2014

Sri Lanka has achieved a high level of financial inclusion compared to other South Asian countries. Its financial sector comprises a wide range of financial institutions providing financial services such as loans, savings, pawning, leasing and finance, and remittance and money transfer...

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