Our Approach
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CGAP’s Research and Market Intelligence team coordinates research activities across the organization, and produces data on access to finance. This small but growing team is a key part of CGAP’s role as a provider of global data and evidence-based research on the industry. The team works with other experts in CGAP and the industry at large to produce a broad range of publications based on original research.
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Financial Access Project
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The survey targets the main financial regulators (usually central banks or bank superintendents) in 150 countries.
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Features
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Financial Access 2010 is the second in the series of annual reports by CGAP and the World Bank Group to monitor statistics for financial access in the world and inform policy debate.
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News and Events
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CGAP, World Bank Group Survey Shows Financial Access Growing Despite Effects of Crisis: Even as economies globally were contracting as a result of the financial crisis in 2009, access to formal finance in developing countries grew. An estimated 2.7 billion people around the world have no access to formal financial services. But the picture of financial inclusion is shifting, finds a new report by CGAP and the World Bank Group.
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Measuring Financial Access Around the World: A background paper for the Financial Access 2009 report introduces a new set of financial access indicators for 139 countries and presents detailed data analysis as well as estimates of access to financial services worldwide, using Financial Access 2009 survey data. The new data set features broader country coverage and greater disaggregation by type of financial product and by type of institution supplying the product.
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Report Data 2010
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Report Data 2009
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Report Methodology
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Financial Access 2010 introduces new data from a survey of financial regulators in 142 countries. It presents indicators of access to savings, credit, and payment services in banks and regulated nonbank financial institutions. Building on earlier work, it is the second in a series of annual reports documenting access to financial services around the world.
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Working Papers and Presentations
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