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  • Banking in Africa : Opportunities and Challenges in Volatile Times (anglais)

    This paper surveys existing literature and data to take stock of the current state of banking systems across Sub-Saharan Africa. It documents different dimensions of the development of the banking systems...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10632 Date du document: 7 décembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten,Cull,Robert J.,Mare,Davide Salvatore,Valenzuela,Patricio

  • Microfinance : a critical literature survey (anglais)

    This paper offers a critical survey of the microfinance literature of the past 10 years. It reviews studies on the effectiveness of different microfinance techniques and offers a critical assessment of...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 102284 Date du document: 22 novembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten

  • SME finance in Africa (anglais)

    This paper uses cross-country firm-level surveys to gauge access to financial services and the importance of financing constraints for African enterprises. The paper compares access to finance in Africa...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7018 Date du document: 1 septembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten,Cull,Robert J.

  • Housing finance across countries : new data and analysis (anglais)

    This paper presents new data on the depth and penetration of mortgage markets across countries. There is a large variation across both dimensions of mortgage market development, across countries, but also...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6756 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Badev,Anton Ivanov,Beck,Thorsten,Vado Sequeira,Ligia Auxiliadora,Walley,Simon Christopher

  • Making cross-border banking work for Africa (anglais)

    Cross-border banking has been a critical part of Africa's financial history since colonial times. While the period after independence saw a wave of nationalization across the continent, with many of the...

    Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 89202 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten,Fuchs,Michael J.,Singer,Dorothe,Witte,Makaio Michel

  • Is small beautiful? Financial structure, size and access to finance (anglais)

    Combining two unique data sets, this paper explores the relationship between financial structure and firms' access to financial services. Specifically, it considers the importance of three different types...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 82882 Date du document: 1 décembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten,Demirgüc-Kunt, Asli,Singer,Dorothe

  • Banking in Africa (anglais)

    This paper takes stock of the current state of banking systems across Sub-Saharan Africa and discusses recent developments including innovations that might help Africa leapfrog more traditional banking...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6684 Date du document: 1 octobre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten,Cull,Robert J.

  • Lending concentration, bank performance and systemic risk : exploring cross-country variation (anglais)

    Using both market-based and annual report-based approaches to measure lending specialization for a broad cross-section of banks and countries over the period 2002 to 2011, this paper is the first to empirically...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6604 Date du document: 1 septembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten,De Jonghe,Olivier Georg

  • Benchmarking financial systems : introducing the financial possibility frontier (anglais)

    Across the world, supply for financial services rarely matches the demand, given multiple market frictions. This paper discusses the concept of the financial possibilities frontier as a constrained optimum...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6615 Date du document: 1 septembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten,Feyen,Erik H.B.

  • Financial sector development in Africa : opportunities and challenges (anglais)

    Africa's financial systems face challenges across many dimensions, as discussed in the report financing Africa: through the crisis and beyond. The analysis in that report was based partly on several detailed...

    Type de document: Numéro du rapport: 73822 Date du document: 21 novembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten,Maimbo,Samuel Munzele

  • Financing Africa : through the crisis and beyond (anglais)

    Financing Africa: through the crisis and beyond is a call to arms for a new approach to Africa's financial sector development. First, policy makers should focus on increasing competition within and outside...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 64664 Date du document: 7 septembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten,Maimbo,Samuel Munzele,Faye,Issa,Triki, Thouraya

  • Is small beautiful ? financial structure, size and access to finance (anglais)

    Combining two unique data sets, this paper explores the relationship between the relative importance of different financial institutions and their average size and firms' access to financial services...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5806 Date du document: 1 septembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Singer,Dorothe

  • Finance for all? : policies and pitfalls in expanding access (russe)

    This book, finance for all, presents first efforts at developing indicators illustrating that financial access is quite limited around the world and identifies barriers that may be preventing small firms...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 41792 Date du document: 17 mai 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Honohan,Patrick Thomas

  • Gender and finance in Sub-Saharan Africa : are women disadvantaged ? (anglais)

    This paper assesses whether there is a gender gap in the use of financial services by businesses and individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors do not find evidence of gender discrimination or lower...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5571 Date du document: 1 février 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aterido,Reyes,Beck,Thorsten,Iacovone,Leonardo

  • The World Bank economic review 25 (1) (anglais)

    This paper is organized in following headings: five questions on international migration and development; where on earth is everybody? the evolution of global bilateral migration 1960-2000; immigration...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 80516 Date du document: 1 février 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Batista,Catia,Beck,Thorsten,Bertoli,Simone,Bollard,Albert,Mckenzie,David J.,Moraga,Jesus Fernandez Huertas,Morten,Melanie,Ortega, Francesc,Ozden,Caglar,Parsons,Christopher Robert,Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad,Rapoport,Hillel,Schiff,Maurice,Vicente, Pedro C.,Walmsley,Terrie Louise

  • What explains the price of remittances? : an examination across 119 country corridors (anglais)

    Remittances are a substantial source of external financing for developing countries that influence many aspects of their development. Though research has shown that remittances are both expensive and price...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 75165 Date du document: 1 février 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten,Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad

  • Islamic vs. conventional banking : business model, efficiency and stability (anglais)

    This paper discusses Islamic banking products and interprets them in the context of financial intermediation theory. Anecdotal evidence shows that many of the conventional products can be redrafted as...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5446 Date du document: 1 octobre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Merrouche,Ouarda

  • Banking sector stability, efficiency, and outreach in Kenya (anglais)

    Although Kenya's financial system is by far the largest and most developed in East Africa and its stability has improved significantly over the past years, many challenges remain. This paper assesses the...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5442 Date du document: 1 octobre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten,Cull,Robert J.,Fuchs,Michael J.,Getenga, Jared,Gatere, Peter,Randa,John,Trandafir,Mircea

  • Mortgage finance in central and eastern Europe -- opportunity or burden ? (anglais)

    Household credit, especially for mortgages, has doubled over the past years in the new European Union member countries, raising concerns about the economic and social consequences of household indebtedness...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5202 Date du document: 1 février 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten,Kibuuka,Katie,Tiongson,Erwin H. R.

  • What explains the cost of remittances ? an examination across 119 country corridors (anglais)

    Remittances are a sizeable source of external financing for developing countries. In the L’Aquila 2009 G8 Summit, leaders pledged to reduce the cost of remittances by half in 5 years (from 10 to 5 percent)...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5072 Date du document: 1 octobre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beck,Thorsten,Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad