The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution

By Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, L. Klapper, Dorothe Singer, Saniya Ansar, Jake Hess. 2018

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The Global Findex Database 2017 presents key findings from the Global Findex database, with detailed insight into how adults in more than 140 economies access accounts, make payments, save, borrow, and manage risk. As the data show, each economy has its own successes, challenges, and opportunities when it comes to financial inclusion. A growing body of research demonstrates the impact of country advances on significant priorities such as reducing poverty, hunger, and gender inequality.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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Measuring financial inclusion: a composite FI index for the developing countries (2020, background): “Demirguc-Kunt and Klapper (2012); Demirguc-Kunt et al. (2015, 2018) have provided a set of indicators to measure the level of savings, borrowing, payments and risk management of adults in the world.”
From Poverty to Disaster and Back: a Review of the Literature (2020, background): “…vulnerability suggests that financial inclusion, especially targeting poor people through savings and borrowing products designed for their needs, could be a powerful risk reduction strategy (Morduch 1995; Kinnan and Townsend 2012; Demirguc-Kunt et al. 2018; Moore et al. 2019; Erman et al. 2019).”
Anti-Money Laundering in Bitcoin: Experimenting with Graph Convolutional Networks for Financial Forensics (2019, neutral): “Approximately 1.7 billion adults are unbanked [7].”
Meta-Analysis of Present-Bias Estimation using Convex Time Budgets (2019, methodology): “23 A financial institution is defined by Demirgüç-Kunt et al. (2018) as a bank or another type of financial institution, such as a credit union, a microfinance institution, a cooperative, or the post office, or having a debit card.”
Building financial resilience through financial and digital literacy in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (2020, background): “Despite having the lowest saving and borrowing rates, Pakistan has the highest percentage of those reporting having an emergency fund that is large enough to cover unplanned expenses (32.7%).”
Gender Dimensions of Disaster Risk and Resilience (2021, background): “In the developing world, men are on average 22 percent more likely to have borrowed from a financial institution or used a credit card than women in the past year; in high-income countries, they are 7 percent more likely to do so (Demirgüç-Kunt et al. 2018).”
Bridging the financial inclusion gender gap in smallholder agriculture in Nigeria: An untapped potential for sustainable development (2020, background): “Such formal accounts could include a bank account, nonbank account or mobile money account to save, borrow, access insurance products, make payments, transfers or receive remittances (Demirgüç-Kunt et al. 2018).”
Financial Literacy among the Millennial Generation: Relationships between Knowledge, Skills, Attitude, and Behavior (2020, background): “The remaining 31% of adults did not have bank accounts, with most of these people living in seven developing countries, namely, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, and Pakistan (Demirgüç-Kunt et al., 2018).”