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Financial Inclusion Beyond Payments : Policy Considerations for Digital Savings
World Bank Group - 2019
The report discusses key policy issues that enable and constrain digital savings market development and offers policy considerations within the context of the G20's High-Level Principles for Digital Financial Inclusion. Based on current market observations, three policy considerations seem most...
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Assessing Physical Environment of TOD Communities around Metro Stations : Using Big Data and Machine Learning
Fang, Wanli - 2020
Policy makers and city planning professionals who work on transit-oriented development are often interested in evaluating the quality of physical environment around metro stations. How to carry out this task comprehensively, effectively and repeatedly, with limited time and budget? Under the GEF...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646917
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434496
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Financial Inclusion in Romania : Issues and Opportunities
World Bank Group - 2020
The report aims to explore and analyze the major gaps in financial inclusion and access to finance in Romania, as identified in the Technical Note on Financial Intermediation prepared in the context of the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) (2018). The FSAP technical note analyzed the...
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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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Advancing Digital Financial Inclusion in ASEAN : Policy and Regulatory Enablers
Trujillo, Veronica - 2018
This report provides a cross-country overview of the policy and regulatory framework for digital financial services (DFS) in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries from a financial inclusion perspective. It was carried out at the request of the ASEAN Working Committee on...
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Advancing Digital Financial Inclusion in ASEAN : Policy and Regulatory Enablers
World Bank Group - 2019
This report is intended to support digital financial services (DFS) policymakers in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) and regulators endeavors, by providing a structured approach for the analysis of DFS and financial inclusion. It provides examples of how countries are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646000
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Digitization of Agribusiness Payments in Africa : Building a Ramp for Farmers' Financial Inclusion and Participation in a Digital Economy
World Bank Group - 2020
This report aims to present the rationale for digitization of agribusiness payments in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), assess … the current status of digitization using demand and supply-side data, and identify key actions that can help accelerate … digitization. The report draws on an analysis of financial-inclusion data from the Global Findex database, a survey administered to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647522
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Digitization of Agribusiness Payments in Africa : Building a Ramp for Farmers' Financial Inclusion and Participation in a Digital Economy
World Bank Group - 2020
This report aims to present the rationale for digitization of agribusiness payments in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), assess … the current status of digitization using demand and supply-side data, and identify key actions that can help accelerate … digitization. The report draws on an analysis of financial-inclusion data from the Global Findex database, a survey administered to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647589