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Borrowing costs and the role of multilateral development banks : evidence from cross-border syndicated bank lending
Gurara, Daniel Zerfu; Presbitero, Andrea; Sarmiento, Miguel - 2018
Cross-border bank lending is a growing source of external finance in developing countries and could play a key role for …
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Digital connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa : a comparative perspective
Alper, C. Emre; Miktus, Michal - 2019
Higher digital connectivity is expected to bring opportunities to leapfrog development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Experience within the region demonstrates that if there is an adequate digital infrastructure and a supportive business environment, new forms of business spring up and create jobs...
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Is digitalization driving domestic inflation?
Csonto, Balazs; Huang, Yuxuan; Tovar, Camilo Ernesto - 2019
This paper examines the extent to which digitalization-measured by a new proxy based on IP addresses allocations per country-has influenced inflation dynamics in a sample of 36 advanced and emerging economies over 2000-2017. Phillips curve estimates show that digitalization has a statistically...
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Is digital financial inclusion unlocking growth?
Khera, Purva; Ng, Stephanie; Ogawa, Sumiko; Sahay, Ratna - 2021
Digital financial services have been a key driver of financial inclusion in recent years. While there is evidence that financial inclusion through traditional services has a positive impact on economic growth, do the same results carry over for digital financial inclusion? What drives digital...
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Measuring social unrest using media reports
Barrett, Philip; Appendino, Maximiliano; Nguyen, Kate; … - 2020
We present a new index of social unrest based on counts of relevant media reports. The index consists of individual monthly time series for 130 countries, available with almost no lag, and can be easily and transparently replicated. Spikes in the index identify major events, which correspond...
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Filling the gap : digital credit and financial inclusion
Bazarbash, Majid; Beaton, Kimberly - 2020
Can fintech credit fill the credit gap in the consumer and business segments? There are few cross-country studies that explore this question. Focusing on marketplace lending, an important part of fintech credit, we use data for 109 countries from 2015 to 2017 to study the relationship between...
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Commodity price shocks and financial sector fragility
Kinda, Tidiane; Mlachila, Montfort; Ouedraogo, Rasmané - 2016
shocks are associated with higher non-performing loans, bank costs and banking crises, while they reduce bank profits …
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The lender of last resort function after the global financial crisis
Dobler, Marc; Gray, Simon; Murphy, Diarmuid; … - 2016
these operations. Despite a vast literature on the topic, central bank approaches and practices vary considerably. In this …
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House price synchronicity, banking integration, and global financial conditions
Alter, Adrian; Dokko, Jane; Seneviratne, Dulani - 2018
We examine the relationship between house price synchronicity and global financial conditions across 40 countries and about 70 cities over the past three decades. The role played by cross-border banking flows in residential property markets is examined as well. Looser global financial conditions...
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Financial inclusion and bank competition in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mengistu, Azanaw; Perez-Saiz, Hector - 2018
). We use detailed individual-level survey data, combined with key country-level indicators of bank competition and … financial soundness, to study the effect on the adoption of several financial products (bank accounts, credit and debit cards …, and bank loans). We find that more competition tends to increase the probability of access to these financial products. On …
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