… financial access in developed and developing countries. Further, it develops a new socio-economic
development index which incorporates financial access… financial access. The results …

… This paper introduces a new set of financial access indicators for 139 countries across the
globe and describes the results of a preliminary analysis of this data set. The new data set …

… the access of households and small enterprises to financial … measure levels of financial
access, which would permit both private and public agents to improve their policies toward access…

… Funds Ultimately, financial services should help people prepare for unexpected income
shocks, such as health expenses or loss of a job. To measure financial resilience, the 2017 …

… in part the ease of firms’ access to finance, in turn due to … measure individual firms’ (lack
of) access to finance. For large firms with good financial data, econometric analyses of financial …

… The study contributes at the same time to the macroeconomic literature on measuring financial
… Development Goals (SDGs) inequality challenges by means of ICT and financial access. …

… financial access. Although the role of gender is confirmed as an important correlate of financial
access … However, as we include a measure for risk aversion in our model, we can rule out …

… by the fact that the LITS financial access question is less descriptive than the corresponding
questions in the Global Findex survey. Compared with data collected from the providers of …

… earlier efforts to collect indicators of financial access from providers of financial services (…
only from regulated financial institutions and thus provide a fragmented view of financial access. …

… in measuring financial inclusion and takes stock of the literature on the impact of financial …
Among different financial services, expanding access to payment services seems to provide …