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Financial Inclusion in the Middle East and North Africa : Analysis and Roadmap Recommendations
Pearce, Douglas - 2017
The paper provides an assessment of the state of financial inclusion in the MENA region, and identifies constraints, opportunities, and priorities for significantly improving access to finance. Practical recommendations for improving financial inclusion are outlined. Firstly, governments could...
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Mobile Banking and Financial Inclusion : The Regulatory Lessons
Klein, Michael U. - 2017
Mobile banking is growing at a remarkable speed around the world. In the process it is creating considerable uncertainty about the appropriate regulatory response to this newly emerging service. This paper sets out a framework for considering the design of regulation of mobile banking. Since it...
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Can Regulation Promote Financial Inclusion?
Chen, Ron - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894579
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973855
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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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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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A Field Experiment on the Role of Socioemotional Skills and Gender for Hiring in Turkey
Nas Ozen, Selin Efsan - 2020
. The study does not find evidence of other gender differences in the hiring process …
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Gender Bias in SME Lending : Experimental Evidence from Turkey
Alibhai, Salman - 2020
Gender disparities in small and medium-size enterprise lending exist around the world and impede the growth of millions … of women-led firms. This paper examines a potential driver of these disparities: gender-biased loan officers. Officer … reducing gender biased loan allocations by 6 percent. The results suggest that loan officers may use gender bias as a heuristic …
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Preventing More"Missing Girls" : A Review of Policies to Tackle Son Preference
Kumar, Sneha - 2018
reform to promote gender equity and advocacy efforts, offer more promise by bringing about permanent shifts in the relative …
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Occupational Segregation and Declining Gender Wage Gap : The Case of Georgia
Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2018
This paper examines the role of industrial and occupational segregation in explaining the gender wage gap and its … evolution in Georgia between 2004 and 2015. It first documents the declining trends observed in the gender wage gap in Georgia … gender wage gap and its decline by decomposing the gender wage gap into the within-category and between-category components …
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