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Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution
In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive...
Financial Inclusion, Digital Payments, and Resilience in the Age of COVID-19
The fourth edition of the Global Findex offers a lens into how people accessed and used financial services during the COVID-19 pandemic, when mobility...
Global Growth and Its Potential in Eastern Europe
Factoring is a form of asset-based finance where the credit is extended based on the value of the borrower's accounts receivable. In recent years fact...
Evidence from East Asia's Financial Crisis
Abstract: June 1999 - Evidence from East Asia suggests that a firm's ownership relationship with a family or bank provides insurance against the likel...
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In 2011 the World Bank--with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation--launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive d...
Measuring Financial Inclusion and Opportunities to Expand Access to and Use of Financial Services
The Global Findex database is the world's most comprehensive set of data on how people make payments, save money, borrow and manage risk. Launched in ...
Evidence from International Data
"Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, we study how the business environment in a country drives the creation of new ...
Large and foreign-owned institutions may have difficulty extending relationship loans to informationally opaque small firms. Bank distress does not ap...
There is currently a large interest in understanding firms' access to finance, particularly in the financing of small- and medium-size enterprises (SM...
A secured letter-of-credit loan allows a lender to make larger loans than would be permissible on an unsecured basis, maximizing a risky borrower's in...
Firm-level Evidence from Eastern Europe
The authors study differences in the use of two corporate governance provisions - cumulative voting and proxy by mail voting - in a sample of 224 firm...
Evidence from East Asia
In a large sample of East Asian nonfinancial corporations, firms using foreign currency derivatives had distinctive characteristics, such as larger si...
Explanations of Its Relative Use
The Role of Foreign Debt
"Previous research has documented weak, and sometimes conflicting, effects of legal quality on measures of firm debt. Using WorldScope data for 1,689 ...
Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, we study how the business environment in a country drives the creation of new f...
August 2001 Large and foreign-owned institutions may have difficulty extending relationship loans to informationally opaque small firms. Bank distress...
The Global Findex Database
This paper provides the first analysis of the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database, a new set of indicators that measure how adults in ...
Evidence from Developing Countries
This paper documents and analyzes gender differences in the use of financial services using individual-level data from 98 developing countries. The da...
The Role of Microfinance
Analyzing Data from a New Module of the Global Findex Database
The author finds evidence that lines of credit secured by accounts receivable are associated with business borrowers with a high risk of default. Whil...
February 2001 A secured letter-of-credit loan allows a lender to make larger loans than would be permissible on an unsecured basis, maximizing a risky...