This paper summarizes the findings of research in Bogota, Colombia and Mexico City on the use of financial services by the urban population. The focus is on the majority of persons who have no relation whatever with a formal bank, cooperative or credit union. The paper identifies the...

Data gathered during studies conducted over the past four years in Mexico City, Mexico (Distrito Federal); Bogota, Colombia, and in several Brazilian cities suggests that in these countries somewhere between 65 and 85 percent of households are "unbanked", those who do not hold any kind of...

This paper presents results from one of the first independent socioeconomic household surveys to study urban poverty among Saudi nationals. This survey was administered to 496 Saudi households in Dammam in 2019. Poverty is conceptualised as relative poverty, which is based on the country’s...