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Financial inclusion or access to financial services is a major development goal for all nations across the globe. The concept has a multitude of dimensions from payments and savings accounts, credit, insurance and pensions and securities market. Ensuring quality access to formal financial...
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This working paper studies the effect of remittances from the United States on crime rates in Mexico. The topic is … examined using municipal-level data on the percent of household receiving remittances and homicides per 100,000 inhabitants …. Remittances are found to be associated with a decrease in homicide rates. Every 1 percent increase in the number of households …
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microfinance lenders among the unbanked. …
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Uruguay implemented an ambitious financial inclusion program that included a fiscal stimulus through VAT rebates and subsidies for point of sale (POS) adoption. One of its main provisions banned cash payment of wages and social benefits and forced financial institutions to open wage-accounts...
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Financial inclusion is strikingly low in emerging economies. In only a few years, financial technologies (fintech) have led to a dramatic expansion in the number of non-traditional credit intermediaries, but the macroeconomic and credit-market implications of this rapid growth of fintech are not...
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financing scheme for renewable and energy efficiency deployment. Financing barriers represent a notable obstacle for energy … and the lack of guarantees, are key issues related to financing barriers. Implementing a policy such as PACE - Property … access to capital tends to stall them. -- Financing Barriers ; Energy Efficiency ; Solar PV ; Energy Investments …
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