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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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bank size to the volatility of loan growth. The effect of regulation on the power law coefficient indicates whether … introduction of bank levies weaken the size-volatility nexus; in countries with more stringent capital regulation or levies in …Since the global financial crisis and the related restructuring of banking systems, bank concentration is on the rise …
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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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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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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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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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. Asian economies are often characterized as having bank-dominated financial systems and underdeveloped capital markets, in …
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case of bank default, and provides it with sufficient funds as precautionary reserves. To identify and classify healthier …
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Credit creation in the housing market has been a key source of systemic financial risk, and therefore is at the center …
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Germany's bank-based financial system provides a high level of financial inclusion, measured by bank outreach and use … implementing the right to a basic bank account with an overdraft facility and protection against attachment, establishing public … credit bureaus, redirecting banking regulation toward the protection of borrowers in long-term credit relationships, and …
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