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Remittances and Financial Inclusion : Evidence from El Salvador

Anzoategui, Diego - 2017

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on financial inclusion. This is an important issue given recent … data for El Salvador, the authors examine the impact of remittances on households' use of savings and credit instruments … from formal financial institutions. They find that although remittances have a positive impact on financial inclusion by …

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Rethinking the State's Role in Finance

Čihák, Martin - 2017

The global financial crisis has given greater credence to the idea that active state involvement in the financial sector can be helpful for stability and development. There is now evidence that, for example, lending by state-owned banks has helped in mitigating the impact of the crisis on...

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Benchmarking Financial Systems Around the World

Čihák, Martin - 2017

This paper introduces the Global Financial Development Database, an extensive dataset of financial system characteristics for 205 economies from 1960 to 2010. The database includes measures of (a) size of financial institutions and markets (financial depth), (b) degree to which individuals can...

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Financial Inclusion in Africa : An Overview

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017

This paper summarizes financial inclusion across Africa. First, it provides a brief overview of the African financial sector landscape. Second, it uses the Global Financial Inclusion Indicators (Global Findex) database to characterize adults in Africa that use formal and informal financial...

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Is Small Beautiful? Financial Structure, Size and Access to Finance

Beck, Thorsten - 2017

Combining two unique data sets, this paper explores the relationship between the relative importance of different financial institutions and their average size and firms' access to financial services. Specifically, the authors explore the relationship between the share in total financial assets...

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The Evolving Importance of Banks and Securities Markets

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017

This paper examines the evolving importance of banks and securities markets during the process of economic development. As economies develop, they increase their demand for the services provided by securities markets relative to those provided by banks, such that securities markets become...

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Making it Easier to Apply for a Bank Account : A Study of the Indian Market

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017

This paper draws on new individual-level survey data from India to study the costs of opening an account and the efficiency of the account application process. The data show a recent increase in account ownership, especially by women and poor adults. The data also suggest that India's flagship...

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Design of a Multi-Stage Stratified Sample for Poverty and Welfare Monitoring with Multiple Objectives : A Bangladesh Case Study

Ahmed, Faizuddin - 2017

Survey 2016/17. This survey instrument will be used by the Government of Bangladesh to estimate reliable poverty and welfare …

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Revisiting the Poverty Trend in Rwanda : 2010/11 to 2013/14

Fatima, Freeha - 2018

registered a decline in poverty from 46 percent in 2010/11 to 39 percent in 2013/14. This declining poverty trend was broadly … national poverty numbers and corroborates the poverty rates published by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda …. Underlying the paper?s conclusions is a detailed theoretical and analytical framework for making poverty comparisons over time …

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A Poor Means Test? Econometric Targeting in Africa

Brown, Caitlin - 2018

Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version …, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method … as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full …

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