Search Results - subject:"access to financial services"

Remittances and Vulnerability in Developing Countries

Bettin, Giulia; Presbitero, Andrea F.; Spatafora, Nikola L. - In: The World Bank Economic Review 31 (2017) 1, pp. 1-23

This paper examines how international remittances are affected by structural characteristics, macroeconomic conditions, and adverse shocks in recipient economies. We exploit a novel, rich panel data set, covering bilateral remittances from 103 Italian provinces to seventy-nine developing...

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Access to financial services in the long term insurance industry

Eksteen, Ruwaida S. H. - 2009

higher risks.It is furthermore pivotal for the success of access to financial services to take intoaccount how this will …

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Access to Financial Services : Measurement, Impact, and Policies

Beck, Thorsten; Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Honohan, Patrick - In: World Bank Research Observer 24 (2009) 1, pp. 119-145

In many developing countries less than half the population has access to formal financial services, and in most of Africa less than one in five households has access. Lack of access to finance is often the critical mechanism for generating persistent income inequality, as well as slower economic...

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PURSUING EFFICIENCY WHILE MAINTAINING OUTREACH: BANK PRIVATIZATION IN TANZANIA

Cull, Robert; P. Spreng, Connor - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

access to financial services for some groups, especially the rural poor. The privatization of Tanzania's National Bank of … assumed most of the branch network and the mandate to foster access to financial services. The new National Bank of Commerce … of a large state-owned bank might come at the expense of reduced access to financial services for some groups …

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Access to Finance and Markets as a Strategy to Address Poverty

Mor, Nachiket; Ananth, Bindu - In: Development Outreach 10 (2008) 2, pp. 44-46

Emphasizes the value of access to financial services for the very poor through partnerships between banks and local …

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Pilot Innovations Could Reignite Anemic Rural Finance

Kloeppinger-Todd, Renate; Agwe, Jonathan - In: Development Outreach 10 (2008) 3, pp. 27-30

Rural finance and credit services to smallholder farmers are high-risk activities. But there is hope for a boost because rural finance has a pivotal role to play amid rising food prices and the need to increase agricultural production.

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Access to Financial Services : A Review of the Issues and Public Policy Objectives

Claessens, Stijn - In: World Bank Research Observer 21 (2006) 2, pp. 207-240

. Universal access to financial services has not been a public policy objective in most countries and would likely be difficult to … achieve. Countries can, however, facilitate access to financial services by strengthening institutional infrastructure …

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