Global Financial Development Report 2014 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Financial Development Report 2014 write by World Bank Group. This book was released on 2013-11-07. Global Financial Development Report 2014 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The second issue in a new series, Global Financial Development Report 2014 takes a step back and re-examines financial inclusion from the perspective of new global datasets and new evidence. It builds on a critical mass of new research and operational work produced by World Bank Group staff as well as outside researchers and contributors.
The Global Findex Database 2017
The Global Findex Database 2017 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Global Findex Database 2017 write by Asli Demirguc-Kunt. This book was released on 2018-04-19. The Global Findex Database 2017 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Inc., the Global Findex database covers more than 140 economies around the world. The initial survey round was followed by a second one in 2014 and by a third in 2017. Compiled using nationally representative surveys of more than 150,000 adults age 15 and above in over 140 economies, The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution includes updated indicators on access to and use of formal and informal financial services. It has additional data on the use of financial technology (or fintech), including the use of mobile phones and the Internet to conduct financial transactions. The data reveal opportunities to expand access to financial services among people who do not have an account—the unbanked—as well as to promote greater use of digital financial services among those who do have an account. The Global Findex database has become a mainstay of global efforts to promote financial inclusion. In addition to being widely cited by scholars and development practitioners, Global Findex data are used to track progress toward the World Bank goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The database, the full text of the report, and the underlying country-level data for all figures—along with the questionnaire, the survey methodology, and other relevant materials—are available at www.worldbank.org/globalfindex.
Financial Inclusion
Financial Inclusion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Financial Inclusion write by World Bank Group. This book was released on 2014-03-03. Financial Inclusion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Financial inclusion has become a major subject of interest among policymakers, researchers, and other financial sector stakeholders. Many countries, for example, have recently adopted explicit financial inclusion strategies with targets for financial inclusion. The interest reflects an increased recognition that financial inclusion can be a driver of economic growth and poverty alleviation, and that many individuals and firms are excluded unnecessarily from even basic financial services. About half of the worlds adult population more than 2.5 billion peoplehave no bank account is one powerful example. Barriers such as cost, travel distance, and amount of paperwork and requirements play an important role. Many of these barriers can be addressed by better policies. Despite the high interest, there are still important gaps in knowledge about financial inclusion, what drives it, and what policies affect it. And while recent years have seen some increases in financial inclusion, there is still much scope to reduce barriers to access. However, one of the challenges is that efforts to increase inclusion, if not implemented well, can backfire. Deeply ingrained social problems cannot be resolved purely with an infusion of debt. If not done properly, it can have the opposite effect, making poor borrowers increasingly dependent on debt, and even contributing to financial instability.Global Financial Development Report 2014: Financial Inclusion is a new report from the World Bank Group. It takes a step back and re-examines financial inclusion from the perspective of new global datasets and new evidence. It builds on a critical mass of new research and operational work produced by World Bank Group staff as well as outside researchers and contributors. The report, the second in this series, follows up on the inaugural issue, the Global Financial Development Report 2013: Rethinking the Role of the State in Finance (http: //www.worldbank.org/financialdevelopment). Accompanying the Global Financial Development Report 2014 is a vast body of underlying research and data. Among other things, this includes an expanded and updated version of the Global Financial Development Database, a dataset of over 70 financial system characteristics for 203 economies from 1960 to 2011, which is presented in the reports appendix
Global Financial Development Report 2013
Global Financial Development Report 2013 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Financial Development Report 2013 write by World Bank. This book was released on 2012-09-17. Global Financial Development Report 2013 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How should we measure and assess financial development around the globe? Why has financial development progressed so quickly in some regions and countries while seriously lagging in other parts of the world? At what point does the financial sector become too large or too complex? What mix of banks, other financial institutions, and financial markets is the best from the broader development perspective? How to ensure healthy competition in the provision of financial services? Which policies help in supporting robust financial development, and which ones do not? And which ones help in providing people and firms with better access to finance? These are the types of questions that are addressed by this new annual publication from the World Bank Group, the Global Financial Development Report 2013. The main theme of this inaugural report is Rethinking the Role of the State in Finance. Launched exactly four years after the Lehman Brothers failure, the report uses the experience of the global financial crisis to re-examine a basic question: what is the proper role of the state in achieving sustainable financial development? The crisis has challenged conventional thinking on the role of the state, and on financial sector policies. It has led to much debate on how best to achieve sustainable development. Among other things, the crisis has revived the notion that direct state intervention in the financial sector can help maintain stability, drive growth, and create jobs. The report examines this notion as well as the evidence of potentially harmful effects of some forms of the state's interventions. It also navigates through ideological divides and doctrinaire positions and delivers relevant, rigorous policy analyses and advice. Building on new data, research, and a breadth of country experience, the report provides a unique contribution to financial sector policy debates. The first part defines, benchmarks, and monitors different dimensions of financial development in countries around the world. The second part covers the various aspects of the state's involvement in the financial sector. Written for a broad audience, the report offers accessible, practical, timely, and actionable policy recommendations. It will be particularly relevant for country officials working on financial sector issues, such as policymakers and staff of central banks, ministries of finance, and financial regulation agencies. It will also be relevant to non-governmental organizations, academics and students, think tanks, private sector participants, and donors, along with the development community more generally.
Global Financial Development Report 2019/2020
Global Financial Development Report 2019/2020 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Financial Development Report 2019/2020 write by World Bank. This book was released on 2019-11-22. Global Financial Development Report 2019/2020 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over a decade has passed since the collapse of the U.S. investment bank, Lehman Brothers, marked the onset of the largest global economic crisis since the Great Depression. The crisis revealed major shortcomings in market discipline, regulation and supervision, and reopened important policy debates on financial regulation. Since the onset of the crisis, emphasis has been placed on better regulation of banking systems and on enhancing the tools available to supervisory agencies to oversee banks and intervene speedily in case of distress. Drawing on ten years of data and analysis, Global Financial Development Report 2019/2020 provides evidence on the regulatory remedies adopted to prevent future financial troubles, and sheds light on important policy concerns. To what extent are regulatory reforms designed with high-income countries in mind appropriate for developing countries? What has been the impact of reforms on market discipline and bank capital? How should countries balance the political and social demands for a safety net for users of the financial system with potentially severe moral hazard consequences? Are higher capital requirements damaging to the flow of credit? How should capital regulation be designed to improve stability and access? The report provides a synthesis of what we know, as well as areas where more evidence is still needed. Global Financial Development Report 2019/2020 is the fifth in a World Bank series. The accompanying website tracks financial systems in more than 200 economies before, during, and after the global financial crisis (http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/gfdr) and provides information on how banking systems are regulated and supervised around the world (http://www.worldbank.org/en/research/brief/BRSS).
