Reaching Out : Access to and Use of Banking Services across Countries

Reaching Out : Access to and Use of Banking Services across Countries

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 indicators predict household and firm use of banking services, (3) explore the association between the outreach indicators and measures of fi...

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Main Authors: Beck, Thorsten, Demirguc-Kunt, Asli, Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
ACCOUNTABILITY
BANK ACCOUNTS
BANK BRANCHES
BANK DEPOSITS
BANK REGULATORY AGENCIES
BANKING SECTOR
BANKING SERVICES
BANKING STRUCTURE
BANKING SYSTEM
BANKING SYSTEMS
BANKS
BIASES
CAPITAL MARKETS
CAUSATION
CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT
CORRELATIONS
CREDIT UNIONS
DATA COLLECTION
DATA COMPILATION
DEPOSITS
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
DUMMY VARIABLES
ECONOMIC GROWTH
EMERGING MARKETS
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARY DEVELOPMENT
FINANCIAL SERVICES
FINANCIAL SYSTEMS
FOREIGN BANKS
HEALTH SERVICES
INDEPENDENT VARIABLES
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
INSURANCE
MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION
METHODOLOGY
MICROFINANCE
OVERHEAD COSTS
PRECISION
PROBABILITY
PRODUCTIVITY
RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
SAMPLE SIZE
SAVINGS
STANDARD DEVIATION
STANDARD ERRORS
STATISTICAL INFORMATION
SURVEY DATA
TRANSITION ECONOMIES
TRANSPORT
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/10/6350112/reaching-out-access-use-banking-services-across-countries
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8534

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/10/6350112/reaching-out-access-use-banking-services-across-countries
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8534

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