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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.