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Hassine, Nadia Belhaj - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 532-556

The paper assesses the levels and determinants of economic inequality in 12 Arab countries using harmonized household survey micro-data. It focuses on the sources of rural–urban, as well as metropolitan–nonmetropolitan, inequalities.

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Does financial literacy improve financial inclusion? Cross country evidence

Grohmann, Antonia; Klühs, Theres; Menkhoff, Lukas - In: World Development 111 (2018), pp. 84-96

While financial inclusion is typically addressed by improving the financial infrastructure, we show that a higher degree of financial literacy also has a clear beneficial effect. We study this effect at the cross-country level, which allows us to consider institutional variation. Regarding...

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Financial Inclusion and Financial Integrity: Aligned Incentives?

de Koker, Louis; Jentzsch, Nicola - In: World Development 44 (2013) C, pp. 267-280

The Financial Action Task Force embraces financial inclusion as complementary to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, as it enhances transparency. This support is based on the premise that the increased use of formal financial services leads to a reduction of usage of informal...

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Remittances and Financial Inclusion: Evidence from El Salvador

Anzoategui, Diego; Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Pería, Martínez - In: World Development 54 (2014) C, pp. 338-349

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on financial inclusion. Using household-level survey data for El Salvador, we examine whether remittances affect households’ use of savings and credit instruments from formal financial institutions. We find that although remittances have a...

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Financial Inclusion, Gender Dimension, and Economic Impact on Poor Households

Swamy, Vighneswara - In: World Development 56 (2014) C, pp. 1-15

We examine the question: “In the context of gender dimension what is the evidence of the impact of the financial inclusion programs on poor households represented by women relative to that represented by men?” By constructing a good counterfactual and comparison group, we employ the...

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Practice What You Preach: Microfinance Business Models and Operational Efficiency

Bos, Jaap W.B.; Millone, Matteo - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 28-42

The microfinance sector has room for pure for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs), non-profit organizations, and …

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A New Index of the Business Environment for Microfinance

Cull, Robert; Navajas, Sergio; Nishida, Ippei; Zeiler, … - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 357-388

This paper describes a new index of the quality of the business environment for microfinance institutions (the Global … Microscope on the Microfinance Business Environment). Regressions are used to validate the index by linking it and its sub …-components to microfinance outcomes. The main findings are that the components of the index related to the supporting institutional …

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Over-Indebtedness in Microfinance – An Empirical Analysis of Related Factors on the Borrower Level

Schicks, Jessica - In: World Development 54 (2014) C, pp. 301-324

This paper analyzes the over-indebtedness of microborrowers in Ghana from a customer protection perspective. It measures over-indebtedness as a subjective indicator based on loan-related sacrifices that borrowers report. It finds that male microborrowers are more likely to be over-indebted. So...

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The Impact of Governance and Institutional Quality on MFI Outreach and Financial Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Barry, Thierno Amadou; Tacneng, Ruth - In: World Development 58 (2014) C, pp. 1-20

, this study shows that NGOs are the best conduits of microfinance in SSA. …

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Is Micro too Small? Microcredit vs. SME Finance

Bauchet, Jonathan; Morduch, Jonathan - In: World Development 43 (2013) C, pp. 288-297

Microcredit and small and medium enterprise (SME) finance are often pitched as alternative strategies to create employment opportunities in low-income communities. So far, though, little is known about how employment patterns compare. We integrate evidence from three surveys to show that,...

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