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Blog Series

Global Financial Inclusion Database (Global Findex)

This blog series coincides with the release of comparable cross-country demand-side data on how the world’s poor save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. The World Bank’s Development Research Group, with a 10-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has constructed the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database. As the first public database of indicators that consistently measure people’s use of financial products across 148 economies and over time, the Global Findex database fills a major gap in the financial inclusion data landscape.

Blog
08 June 2012

Moving Towards A Robust Global Financial Data Architecture

We should not miss the opportunity for continued investment in data infrastructure. The capability to analyze and interpret data will also be key to advance financial inclusion.
Blog
06 June 2012

Exclusion Costs: Financial Inclusion in the Arab World

Arab policymakers, who long regarded microfinance as charity for the poor, are realizing that a financial system that serves only 20 percent of the population is a key ingredient in the recipe for political instability.
Blog
30 May 2012

Practitioners and the Global Findex Data

With the release by Gallup and the World Bank of the Global Findex (Financial Inclusion Index), the path to financial inclusion has just been made a little easier to travel.
Blog
24 May 2012

Diversity Is In

Moving clients to the center of the microfinance discourse is producing new data on who they are and how they use (or could use) financial services.
Blog
09 May 2012

The Global Findex: Filling A Major Gap in the Data Landscape

We believe both policy making and private sector decision making is much improved when it is rooted in rigorous research and analysis. Better evidence can improve outcomes in a number of ways:
Blog
02 May 2012

Formality and Informality: Lessons from the New Findex Survey

The Findex project helps to correct a long-standing imbalance in evidence on global finance: an abundance of data on the supply of financial services but curiously little that’s systematic and comparative about global demand.
Blog
25 April 2012

Two Persistent Divides in Financial Inclusion: Gender and Rural

For the first time, we have hard data to evaluate how women and rural residents around the world save, borrow, make payments and manage risk both inside and outside the formal financial sector.
Blog
24 April 2012

Measuring Financial Exclusion: How Many People Are Unbanked?

Thanks to the launch of the Global Findex data set, based on nationally representative surveys of more than 150,000 adults in 148 economies, we know that approximately 2.5 billion adults lack a formal bank account and most of these people are concentrated in developing economies.
Blog
19 April 2012

Better Data Can Mean Better Decisions For Financial Inclusion

Better financial inclusion data is critical to inform financial inclusion policy making and advance financial inclusion, globally and nationally.

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