financial regulation. First, the paper proposes a broad index of regulatory quality for financial inclusion, emphasizing the … role of nontraditional delivery models, for example, branchless banking, and actors, for example, nonbank lending …

cannot be scored using traditional methods. Individuals in the highest quintile of risk by our measure are 2.8 times more …

payments across countries, namely the incidence of bank accounts, digital payments, and mobile money accounts among the adult … banking systems that go well beyond the adoption of digital-technology tools …

Democratic Republic of Congo from 2017 to 2018. The paper provides evidence of assortative gender matching in agent banking …

This paper uses a randomized controlled trial to study the effects of access to agent banking. Individuals were … encouraged to open an account and transact at a banking agent or a branch of a financial institution. Compared with individuals … tellers are less likely to share information about clients with others. Banking with agents thus entails a trade-off between …

While the concept of social sustainability is growing in salience, there is little consensus on how to measure it. This … original measure of social sustainability and its associated fragilities in the form of multidimensional social gaps. The … measure is anchored conceptually in the new social sustainability in development framework and applied empirically using a …