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Financial Sector Policy in Practice : Benchmarking Financial Sector Strategies Around the World
Maimbo, Samuel Munzele - 2017
paper examines and rates financial sector strategies around the world based on how well they formulate development targets …
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Financial Inclusion and the Role of the Post Office
Anson, Jose - 2017
Given their widespread presence in rural and poor areas, post offices can play a leading role in advancing financial inclusion. Yet little is known about the type of clients that post offices reach through their financial service offerings as compared with clients of traditional financial...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974960
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Job Growth and Finance : Are Some Financial Institutions Better Suited to Early Stages of Development than Others?
Cull, Robert - 2017
This paper combines firm-level data from 89 countries with updated country-level data on financial structure, and uses two estimation approaches. It finds that in low-income countries, labor growth is swifter in countries with a higher level of private credit/gross domestic product; the positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975631
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Access to Financial Services and the Financial Inclusion Agenda Around the World : A Cross-Country Analysis with a New Data Set
Ardic, Oya Pinar - 2017
at the core of policymakers? agendas. The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor and the World Bank Group, in response … inform the policy debate. Using this database, this paper (i) counts the number of unbanked adults around the world at 56 …) discusses the state of financial inclusion mandates around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976198
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Measuring Financial Access Around the World
Kendall, Jake - 2017
estimation of the number of bank accounts in the world (6.2 billion) as well as the number of banked and unbanked individuals. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976612
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Finance and Growth : Schumpeter Might Be Right
Drebentsov, Vladimir - 2017
Joseph Schumpeter argued in 1911 that the services provided by financial intermediaries - mobilizing savings, evaluating projects, managing risk, monitoring managers, and facilitating transactions -stimulate technological innovation and economic development. The authors present evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746925
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Financial Development, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Growth Dynamics
Kassa, Woubet - 2018
This paper utilizes data for African countries to analyze the extent to which financial development affects the dynamics of the relationship between exchange rate flexibility and economic growth. The findings indicate that financial development exerts a positive influence on the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912272
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What Regulatory Frameworks are More Conducive to Mobile Banking? Empirical Evidence from Findex Data
Gutierrez, Eva - 2017
. The authors construct an index that measures the existence of laws and regulation that support mobile banking activity for … laws and regulation in supporting mobile banking. The analysis finds that a supporting regulatory framework is associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973885
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Political Economy of Public Policies : Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets
Anderson, Kym - 2017
The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This paper reviews and synthesizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974433