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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 data set

This departmental paper marks the 10th anniversary of the IMF Financial Access Survey (FAS). It offers a retrospective of the FAS database, along with some refl

The paper finds that while there are important regional and national differences, countries are broadly embracing the opportunities of fintech to boost economic

There is a vast body of literature estimating the impact of financial development on economic growth, inequality, and economic stability. A typical empirical st

"The authors (1) present new indicators of banking sector penetration across 99 countries based on a survey of bank regulatory authorities, (2) show that these