What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...

What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Banking the World -- I Where Are We Now? -- 2 Half the World Is Unbanked -- II Better Data -- 3 Cause and Effect of Financial Access: Cross-Country Evidence from the FinScope Surveys -- 4 How to Ask Households about Financial Services: Experimental Evidence...