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Can regulation promote financial inclusion?

Chen, Rong; Divanbeigi, Raian - 2019

Despite the commitments of the development community toward broader access to finance, financial inclusion rates worldwide are rather unsatisfactory. To date, around two billion adults do not have access to basic financial services such as savings and checking accounts. Attempting to bridge such...

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Applying machine learning and geolocation techniques to social media data (Twitter) to develop a resource for urban planning

Milusheva, Sveta; Marty, Robert; Bedoya, Guadalupe; … - 2020

With all the recent attention focused on big data, it is easy to overlook that basic vital statistics remain difficult to obtain in most of the world. This project set out to test whether an openly available dataset (Twitter) could be transformed into a resource for urban planning and...

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Financial inclusion and inclusive growth : what does it mean for Sri Lanka?

Arandara, Rathnija; Gunasekera, Shanuki - 2020

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Agent banking in a highly under-developed financial sector : evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Cull, Robert J.; Gine, Xavier; Harten, Sven; Bogdana … - 2017

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Behavior revealed in mobile phone usage predicts credit repayment

Björkegren, Daniel; Grissen, Darrell - 2019

Many households in developing countries lack formal financial histories, making it difficult for firms to extend credit, and for potential borrowers to receive it. However, many of these households have mobile phones, which generate rich data about behavior. This article shows that behavioral...

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Beyond the S-curve : insurance penetration, institutional quality and financial market development

Giné, Xavier; Ribeiro, Bernardo; Wrede, Peter - 2019

insurance markets. Based on 20 years of insurance premium data from 180 countries, and a similar wealth of data on institutions … and financial market development, the paper presents important correlates of insurance market development. Although the … analysis cannot identify which factors directly cause insurance market growth, the results suggest that interventions aimed at …

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