Banking the poor [[electronic resource] ] : measuring banking access in 54 economies

• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : World Bank, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (108 p.)
• Disciplina: 332.1/75086942096
• Soggetto topico: Financial services industry - Developing countries; Banks and banking - Developing countries; Microfinance - Developing countries
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-76).
• Nota di contenuto: Overview -- Banking the poor -- Starting to bank -- Adding customer services -- Building branchless banking -- Promoting access to banking -- Extending credit to entrepreneurs -- Increasing disclosure -- Data sources and methodology.
• Sommario/riassunto: Banking the Poor explores level and determinants of financial access in 54 countries, mostly in Africa. It collects information from two sources: central banks and leading commercial banks in each surveyed country. It explores associations between countries' banking policies and practices and their levels of financial access, measured in terms of the numbers of bank account per thousand adults. It builds on the previous work measuring financial access through information from regulators, from banks, and also from users' perspectives in household surveys.
• Titolo autorizzato: Banking the poor
• ISBN: 0-8213-7755-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455042903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II