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Assessing Countries’ Financial Inclusion Standing - A New Composite Index »
Source: Assessing Countries' Financial Inclusion Standing - A New Composite Index
Volume/Issue: 2014/36
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Goran Amidži? , Alexander Massara , and André Mialou
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 21 February 2014
ISBN: 9781475569681
Keywords: Financial inclusion, access and usage of financial services, factor analysis, index, banking, microfinance, Index Numbers and Aggregation, Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data
This paper leverages the IMF's Financial Access Survey (FAS) database to construct a new composite index of financial inclusion. The topic of financial inclusion has gathered significant attention in recent years....
Can Islamic Banking Increase Financial Inclusion?* »
Source: Can Islamic Banking Increase Financial Inclusion?
Volume/Issue: 2015/31
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Sami Ben Naceur , Adolfo Barajas , and Alexander Massara
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 February 2015
ISBN: 9781498370813
Keywords: financial inclusion, Financial Possibility Frontier, bank, banking, banks, credit, Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy, Monetary Policy (Targets, Instruments, and Effects)
The paper analyses existing country-level information on the relationship between the development of Islamic banking and financial inclusion. In Muslim countries-members of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation...
Chapter 8. Financial Inclusion in Mozambique »
Source: Mozambique Rising : Building a New Tomorrow
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s): Doris Ross , Victor Lledo , Alex Segura-Ubiergo , Yuan Xiao , Iyabo Masha , Alun Thomas , and Keiichiro Inui
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 29 May 2014
ISBN: 9781475565102
Keywords: Demographic transition, Economic growth, Dutch disease, Agricultural sector, Employment, Economic policy, Job creation, Natural resources, Natural gas, Mozambique
Access to finance remains problematic in Mozambique. According to the FinScope 2012 survey, 75 percent of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are financially excluded—that is, they do not use...
Chapter 4. Mozambique’s Quest for Inclusive Growth »
Source: Mozambique Rising : Building a New Tomorrow
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s): Doris Ross , Victor Lledo , Alex Segura-Ubiergo , Yuan Xiao , Iyabo Masha , Alun Thomas , and Keiichiro Inui
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 29 May 2014
ISBN: 9781475565102
Keywords: Demographic transition, Economic growth, Dutch disease, Agricultural sector, Employment, Economic policy, Job creation, Natural resources, Natural gas, Mozambique
The pursuit of inclusive growth in which the benefits are widely shared across the population has become a central macroeconomic challenge in both advanced and developing economies. Significant increases in...
Financial Development and Inclusion in the Caribbean »
Source: Financial Development and Inclusion in the Caribbean
Volume/Issue: 2018/53
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Chuan Li , and Joyce Wong
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 March 2018
ISBN: 9781484345306
Keywords: Caribbean, Financial systems, Jamaica, Latin America, Western Hemisphere, Financial inclusion, Financial Development, General, Government Policy and Regulation, General
Many Caribbean financial systems are relatively well developed for their size but benefits are concentrated in a small part of the population. In several large countries, the financial development levels are below...
Financial Inclusion »
Source: Financial Inclusion : Zooming in on Latin America
Volume/Issue: 2015/206
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Era Dabla-Norris , Yixi Deng , Anna Ivanova , Izabela Karpowicz , Filiz Unsal , Eva VanLeemput , and Joyce Wong
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 September 2015
ISBN: 9781513568928
Keywords: Financial inclusion, Growth, Inequality, finance, household, households, bank, Equity, Justice, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have made important strides in promoting financial inclusion of firms and households. However, while the region is broadly at par with its peers on financial inclu...
Financial Inclusion »
Source: Financial Inclusion : Can it Meet Multiple Macroeconomic Goals?
Volume/Issue: 2015/17
Series: Staff Discussion Notes
Author(s): Ratna Sahay , Martin Cihak , Papa N'Diaye , Adolfo Barajas , Srobona Mitra , Annette Kyobe , Yen Mooi , and Reza Yousefi
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 September 2015
ISBN: 9781513585154
Keywords: Financial services, Economic growth, Inclusive growth, Household credit, Business enterprises, Financial sector, Income inequality, Gender, Economic stability, Financial stability
Using several recently available global datasets, this Staff Discussion Note examines macroeconomic effects of financial inclusion. It finds significant benefits to economic growth from financial inclusion, but the...
Financial Inclusion and Bank Competition in Sub-Saharan Africa »
Source: Financial Inclusion and Bank Competition in Sub-Saharan Africa
Volume/Issue: 2018/256
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Azanaw Mengistu , and Hector Perez Saiz
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 07 December 2018
ISBN: 9781484386163
Keywords: Accounts, Competition, Financial inclusion, Financial soundness indicators, Balance sheets, Sub-Saharan Africa, financial soundness, debit cards, Business Objectives of the Firm
In this paper we study how competition and financial soundness affect financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We use detailed individual-level survey data, combined with key country-level indicators of ban...
Financial Inclusion and Development in the CEMAC1 »
Source: Financial Inclusion and Development in the CEMAC
Volume/Issue: 2015/235
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Adrian Alter , and Boriana Yontcheva
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 November 2015
ISBN: 9781484317556
Keywords: financial inclusion, financial development gap, benchmarking, gdp, credit, variables, Government Policy and Regulation,
This paper examines financial inclusion and development in the CEMAC. We explore the level of financial inclusion in the CEMAC through a benchmarking exercise.We construct a measure of financial development gap and...
Financial Inclusion, Growth and Inequality »
Source: Financial Inclusion, Growth and Inequality : A Model Application to Colombia
Volume/Issue: 2014/166
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Izabela Karpowicz
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 12 September 2014
ISBN: 9781498344838
Keywords: Financial deepening, financial inclusion, access to finance, inequality, banking, savings rate, small firms, General, Government Policy and Regulation,
Financial inclusion has been one of the key pillars of Colombia's development strategy for a number of years. Financial inclusion policies have aimed at channeling microcredit to poor, spreading formal banking syst...