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This study contributes to the literature by analyzing the impact of financial inclusion (FI) on various bank risk dimensions, including systemic risk, which has been underexplored. We expand on recent research by examining not only the type of financial services, but also the source of FI,...
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Fletcher School's three digital divide - gender divide, class (rich-poor) divide and rural divide. The results indicate that … impact on the gender divide. These findings imply that Fintech alone may not be sufficient to close the gender gap in access … addressing the gender gap directly, and at changing attitudes and social norms across demographics …
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conditionality with negative impacts on gender inequality. Proper evaluations of the impacts of IMF-supported programs on gender … inequality require, however, credible control groups that address the counterfactual: do post-crisis gender disparities evolve … groups that match each IMF-supported program country's gender and economic trends and find overwhelming evidence against …
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effects of childcare on female participation and unemployment and a substantial gender gap in labor income for workers without … explore causal links, this unique feature of high female participation and, yet, considerable gender gaps in other dimensions …. At the same time, the small gender gaps for workers with higher education across participation, unemployment, and labor …
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On the current pace of reforms, global gender gaps are estimated to close, using deterministic (linear or log … efforts, gender gaps may in fact never close. Using Markov chains, a common approach in macroeconomics, this paper analyzes … the dynamics of the cross-country distribution of the gender gap in labor force participation. This methodology does not …
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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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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 system usage, fostering electronic payment acceptance, and making financial...
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We develop a micro-founded general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents to identify pertinent constraints to financial inclusion. We evaluate quantitatively the policy impacts of relaxing each of these constraints separately, and in combination, on GDP and inequality. We focus on three...
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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 (OIC)—various indicators of financial inclusion tend to be lower,...
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The emergence of financial technologies—fintech—has become an engine of change, promising to expand access to financial services and give a boost to financial inclusion. The ownership of accounts in formal financial institutions increased from 51 percent of the world’s adult population in...
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