This paper provides the first analysis of the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database, a new set of … microfinance institution in the past year. Although half of adults around the world remain unbanked, at least 35 percent of them …

The authors present an infrastructure database that was assembled from multiple sources. Its main purposes are: (1) to … that proxy access, affordability, and quality of service. Additionally, the database includes a snapshot of 15 reform …

(SEDLAC). Two are based on secondary sources: "All the Ginis" (ATG) and the World Income Inequality Database (WIID); and one … is generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID …-based: CEPALSTAT, Income Distribution Database (IDD), LIS, PovcalNet, and Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean …

Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvD). The ORBIS database provides data on firms' financial and productive activities … structure for over 130 million companies across the world. Researchers need to overcome several challenges before making the … database usable for research. First, the database is not designed for large downloads that is essential for an econometric …