Showing 1 - 10 of 702
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004766
,000 adults in 15 lower-middle- and low-income Sub-Saharan African economies collected as part of the World Bank's Global Findex … database. The majority of these adults reported suffering a bad harvest or significant livestock loss in the past five years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168011
the Caribbean. Two are based on secondary sources: All the Ginis and the World Income Inequality Database; and one is … generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database. Although there is …-based: CEPALSTAT, Income Distribution Database, Luxembourg Income Study, PovcalNet, and Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245595
Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment of climate change policies. This document provides a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245829
. First, it presents a new database that offers a detailed assessment of the content of preferential arrangements, examining … the coverage and legal enforceability of provisions. The database covers 279 agreements signed by 189 countries between … 1958 and 2015, which reflects the entire set of preferential trade agreements in force and notified to the World Trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246360
Financial sector strategies enable financial policy makers and stakeholders to take a holistic view of the financial development needs in their country and formulate balanced financial policies. They help policy makers consider the systemic risk that different development policies involve and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806721
In 2011 the World Bank-with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-launched the Global Findex database, the … collected in collaboration with Gallup, Incorporated, the Global Findex database covers more than 140 economies around the world … world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644111
Institutions are defined as the set of rules that govern human interactions. When these rules are discriminatory, they may disempower segments of a population in the economic spheres of activity. This study explores whether laws that discriminate against women influence their engagement in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245656
This paper studies how the sensitivity of consumption to income has changed over time as the degree of financial integration has risen. In standard theory, greater financial integration facilitates international borrowing and lending, helping to reduce the sensitivity of consumption growth to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246210
The Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) database, launched by the World Bank in 2011, provides comparable … indicators showing how people around the world save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. The 2014 edition of the database …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246275