Documents et rapports
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The pros and cons of agent banking : evidence from Senegal (anglais)
This study seeks to estimate the effects of access to agent banking on opening and usage of a savings account in urban and peri-urban areas in Senegal. A randomly selected group of individuals were given...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 126040 Date du document: 1 mai 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Buri,Sinja,Cull,Robert J.,Giné, Xavier,Harten,Sven,Heitmann,Soren
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Banking with agents : experimental evidence from Senegal (anglais)
This paper uses a randomized controlled trial to study the effects of access to agent banking. Individuals were encouraged to open an account and transact at a banking agent or a branch of a financial...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8417 Date du document: 19 avril 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Buri,Sinja,Cull,Robert J.,Gine,Xavier,Harten,Sven,Heitmann,Soren
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Agent banking in a highly under-developed financial sector : evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo (anglais)
The paper provides evidence on the number and volume of financial transactions undertaken by agents (local businesses that double as more convenient, lower cost alternatives to formal branches) of the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7984 Date du document: 27 février 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cull,Robert J.,Gine,Xavier,Harten,Sven,Rusu,Anca Bogdana
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Women make the best DFS agents : how financial sector alternative delivery channels create business opportunities for women in emerging markets (anglais)
New business opportunities are being created for micro entrepreneurs by digital financial services (DFS) and agent banking in Sub-Saharan Africa. The agents who deliver these financial services are mostly...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 128215 Date du document: 1 mai 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Harten,Sven,Rusu,Anca Bogdana
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Find the gap : can big data help to increase digital financial services adoption? (anglais)
Big data is a big topic. Rarely a day passes without news of innovative applications of the data all produce through frequent use of technology. It is also increasingly recognized that effective analysis...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 128214 Date du document: 1 février 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Harten,Sven,Blumenstock,Joshua Evan,Khan,Muhammad Raza Ur Rehman,Kinzinger,Johannes Philipp
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Big data innovation challenge : pioneering approaches to data-driven development (anglais)
Big data can sound remote and lacking a human dimension, with few obvious links to development and impacting the lives of the poor. Concepts such as anti-poverty targeting, market access or rural electrification...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 107751 Date du document: 1 janvier 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fernandes,Erick C.M.,Jimenez,Daniel Regis,Delerce,Sylvain,Harten,Sven,Kaiser,Kai-Alexander,Kelm,Kathrine M.,Krambeck,Holly,Lemieux,Victoria Louise,Gaba,Kwawu Mensan,Newhouse,David Locke,Rodriguez,Camila,Villaveces,Andres,Wang,Wei Winnie,Adelman,Melissa Ann,Gonzalez,Alvaro S.,Hernandez Ore,Marco Antonio,Khokhar,Tariq Afzal,Kilic,Talip,Lozano Gracia,Nancy
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Who are the microfinance clients? : a case study on customer segmentation and product development (anglais)
Two thirds of adults in Sub-Saharan Africa don’t have access to formal financial services, which means the large majority do not have access to secure and productive means of saving, safe, and efficient...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 128213 Date du document: 1 octobre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Harten,Sven,Buri,Sinja
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Greenfield microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa : benchmarking quality, growth, and outreach (anglais)
The greenfield model embodied a new approach to cross-border banking on the continent, designed to reach poorer market segments via newly built retail branches. The objective of benchmarking the financial...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 128212 Date du document: 1 décembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cull,Robert J.,Harten,Sven,Bull,Greta L.
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Benchmarking the financial performance, growth, and outreach of greenfield microfinance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
In recent years there has been a rapid increase in the presence and growth of greenfield microfinance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper uses regressions to benchmark those African greenfields...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7029 Date du document: 1 septembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bull,Greta L.,Cull,Robert J.,Harten,Sven,Nishida,Ippei