and poor adults. This paper provides an overview of financial inclusion around the world and reviews the recent empirical …

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 …

microfinance institution in the past year. Although half of adults around the world remain unbanked, at least 35 percent of them …