Documents et rapports

Digital Economy for Latin America and the Caribbean - Country Diagnostic : Jamaica (anglais)

Digital technologies are transforming how individuals, businesses, and governments interact, creating new opportunities to address long-standing development challenges. In Jamaica, the Vision 2030 document...

Appraisal Program Information Document (PID) - Second Crisis Response and Recovery Guatemala Development Policy Lending - P175979 (anglais)

South Africa – Financial Sector Assessment Program : Technical Note – Financial Inclusion (anglais)

South Africa has made significant progress in expanding access to financial services for individuals, but active usage of digital financial services remains low. Approximately four in five South African...

Concept Program Information Document (PID) - Second Crisis Response and Recovery Guatemala Development Policy Lending - P175979 (anglais)

Guatemala : Políticas para la Recuperación Empresarial, el Empleo y la Transformación Económica (anglais)

El objetivo de este informe es aportar información para la formulación de políticas públicas en Guatemala relacionadas con la recuperación de las empresas, el empleo y la transformación económica. Se ofrecen...

Guatemala : Policies for Business Recovery, Jobs and Economic Transformation (anglais)

The objective of this report is to inform public policies in Guatemala related to business recovery, jobs, and economic transformation. Analysis and actionable policy recommendations are provided in five...

Decentralized delivery of financial education : evidence from a country-wide field experiment (anglais)

Can financial education delivery be successfully decentralized? This paper studies a large-scale field experiment with 200 Savings and Credit Cooperative Associations (SACCOs) in Rwanda, and tests competing...

The Impact of Financial Education through Savings and Credit Cooperatives in Rwanda (anglais)

This results brief summarizes findings from a randomized-controlled trial of the Financial Education through SACCOs program in Rwanda. Members of participating SACCOs showed improvements in financial knowledge...

Developing and operationalizing a national financial inclusion strategy : toolkit (anglais)

A national financial inclusion strategy (NFIS) can provide an effective instrument to chart a clear and coordinated path toward improving financial inclusion. An NFIS enables stakeholders to jointly define...

From spreadsheets to suptech : technology solutions for market conduct supervision (anglais)

Effective and efficient market conduct supervision is critical to ensuring that financial consumers are protected from unfair business practices and provided with clear and relevant information. Yet market...

South Africa Retail Banking Diagnostic : Treating Customers Fairly in Relation to Transactional Accounts and Fixed Deposits (anglais)

At the request of the National Treasury of the Republic of South Africa, the World Bank Group (WBG) undertook a Retail Banking Diagnostic focusing on the provision of consumer transactional accounts and...

Global financial inclusion and consumer protection survey : 2017 report (anglais)

Financial sector authorities increasingly prioritize financial inclusion and financial consumer protection, alongside existing priorities of stability and integrity. An enabling environment that facilitates...

Enhancing financial capability and inclusion in Morocco : a demand-side assessment (anglais)

The World Bank Group, at the request of the Moroccan Central Bank (Banque Al-Maghrib BAM), completed a demand-side assessment on financial capability and inclusion in Morocco. This report is based on a...

New firm registration and the business cycle (anglais)

This paper uses new panel data on the number of new firm registrations in 109 countries during 2002-2012 to study the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth. The data show strong evidence...

Islamic finance and financial inclusion: measuring use of and demand for formal financial services among Muslim adults (anglais)

In recent years, the Islamic finance industry has attracted the attention of policy makers and international donors as a possible channel through which to expand financial inclusion, particularly among...

The Global Findex database : Islamic finance and financial inclusion (anglais)

Compared with non-Muslims, self-identified Muslims are significantly less likely to own a formal account or save at a formal financial institution, after controlling for other individual and country characteristics...

The Global Findex database : financial inclusion of youth (anglais)

Younger adults make up a disproportionately large share of unbanked adults worldwide. Data from the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) database show that 44 percent of youth (ages 18-25) have an...

The Global Findex database : financial inclusion in Europe and Central Asia (russe)

In Europe and Central Asia 45 percent of adults have an account with a formal financial institution though just 7 percent report having saved formally in the past year, according to new data from the Global...

The Global Findex database : financial inclusion in Europe and Central Asia (anglais)

In Europe and Central Asia 45 percent of adults have an account with a formal financial institution though just 7 percent report having saved formally in the past year, according to new data from the Global...

The Global Findex database : financial inclusion in India (anglais)

In India 35 percent of adults have a formal account and 8 percent a formal loan, according to new data from the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) database. The data allow comparison with other...