Half the World is Unbanked

By J. Morduch, A. Chaia, A. Dalal, Tony Goland, M. González, R. Schiff. 2010

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Resolving the African Financial Development Gap: Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya (2012, unknown): “While in the early 2000s roughly half of the world’s adult population lacked any form of bank account, in Sub-Saharan Africa over eighty percent of the adult population lacked an account (Chaia et al. (2011) and Honohan (2008)).”
The Cost of Convenience? (2017, unknown): “2010), and in Sub-Saharan Africa, this estimate reaches 80 percent (Chaia et al. 2009).”
Microfinance: Creating Opportunities for the Poor? (2010, background): “Without access to safe, convenient, and efficient banking services, the link between savings and investment becomes tenuous (Chaia et al., 2009; Rutherford, 2000).”
Improving Access to Banking: Evidence from Kenya (2013, unknown): “Recent studies show that in Sub-Saharan Africa over 80 percent of the adult population lacked an account in the early 2000s, well above the world average of 50 percent (Chaia et al., 2011; Honohan, 2008).”
Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya (2009, methodology): “The risk preference questions were similar to Charness and Genicot (2009) and asked respondents how much of 100 Ksh they would like to invest in an asset that pays o¤ four times the amount invested with probability 0.5, and that pays o¤ 0 with probability 0.5.11 Our measures of cognitive ability…”