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Systemic Implications of Financial Inclusion

Ben Naceur, Sami - 2024

contrary to developed countries, credit expansions are linked to lower commercial banking risks, underscoring the benefits of … banking risks, its effect on systemic risk is weaker in these countries, likely due to limited asset diversification. Moreover …

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Digital Financial Inclusion in Emerging and Developing Economies: A New Index

Khera, Purva - 2021

Adoption of technology in the financial services industry (i.e. fintech) has been accelerating in recent years. To systematically and comprehensively assess the extent and progress over time in financial inclusion enabled by technology, we develop a novel digital financial inclusion index. This...

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Targeting Social Transfers to the Poor in Mexico

Coady, David P. - 2009

Mexico's main social support program, Oportunidades, combines two methods to target cash to poor households: an initial self-selection by households who acquire knowledge about the program and apply for benefits, followed by an administrative determination of eligibility based on a means test....

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Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Poverty Alleviation

Dorosh, Paul - 2008

for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue …

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The Spending and Absorption of Aid in PRGF Supported Programs

Martijn, Jan Kees - 2008

This paper studies the spending and absorption of aid in PRGF-supported programs, verifies whether the use aid is programmed to be smoothed over time, and analyzes how considerations about macroeconomic stability influence the programmed use of aid. It finds that PRGF-supported programs allow...

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Why are the G-20 Data Gaps Initiative and the SDDS Plus Relevant for Financial Stability Analysis?

Heath, Robert M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

In the wake of the recent global crisis the international community is giving an increased focus on stability of the financial system, so-called financial stability analysis. With the increasing need for data sets to undertake this analysis, the question naturally arises as to what types of data...

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Risk Exposures and Financial Spillovers in Tranquil and Crisis Times : Bank-Level Evidence

Poirson, Hélène - 2013

For a sample of 83 financial institutions during 2003-2011, this paper attempts to answer three questions: first, what is the evolution of banks' stock price exposure to country-level and global risk factors as approximated by equity indices; second, which bank-specific characteristics explain...

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Banking Stability Measures

Goodhart, Charles A. E. - 2009

This paper defines a set of banking stability measures which take account of distress dependence among the banks in a … system, thereby providing a set of tools to analyze stability from complementary perspectives by allowing the measurement of … associated with a specific bank. Our approach defines the banking system as a portfolio of banks and infers the system …

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Promise (Un)kept? Fintech and Financial Inclusion

Cevik, Serhan - 2024

percent of the world’s adult population in 2011 to 76 percent in 2021, but there is still significant variation across …

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Mobile Money, Perception about Cash, and Financial Inclusion: Learning from Uganda's Micro-Level Data

Simione, Felix - 2023

that pioneered mobile money in the world. We use the Propensity Score Matching method to robustly compare mobile money …

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