The World Bank Economic Review - Financial Inclusion and Borrower Data 2016 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics

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Supplement to The World Bank Economic Review presenting conference papers and proceedings centered on financial inclusion and borrower data. The collection includes an editors’ introduction and multiple research articles examining how financial access expands, how data can be measured and used, and how information and network dynamics influence borrower outcomes. Topics range from the Global Findex database and socio-economic patterns to studies on collateral, guarantees, and large-scale experimental evidence supporting policy-relevant conclusions.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages106

Reading Time4 h 27 min

Supplement Articles

Editors’ Introduction

Finance, Financial Inclusion, and Borrower Data

The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion

Purchase Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Political Inclination

The Impact of Information Sharing on the Use of Collateral versus Guarantees

Health Information, Disease Propagation, and Large-Scale RCT

Data for Development

The ABCDE of Big Data: Assessing Biases in Call-detail records for Development Estimates

Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized | PAPERSAND PROCEEDINGS OF THE | | --- | | ANNUAL BANK CONFERENCE | | ON<br> | | DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS | Supplement to THE WORLD BANK ECONOMIC REVIEW Financial Inclusion and Borrower Data 2016 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics“Data and Development Economics”June 20-21, 2016 Washington D.C. Supplement Articles Editors’ Introduction Finance, Financial Inclusion, and Borrower Data The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and Opportunities to Expand Access to and Use of Financial Services Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, Saniya Ansar, and Jake Hess Purchase Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Political Inclination Xiaowen Dong, Eaman Jahani, Alfredo J. Morales, Burçin Bozkaya, Bruno Lepri, and Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland The Impact of Information Sharing on the Use of Collateral versus Guarantees Ralph De Haas and Matteo Millone Health Information, Disease Propagation, and Large-Scale RCT Linguistic Fractionalization and Health Information in Sub-Saharan Africa Joseph Flavian Gomes Predicting Dynamic Patterns of Short-Term Movement Sveta Milusheva Representativity and Networked Interference in Data-Rich Field Experiments: A Large-Scale RCT in Rural Mexico Alejandro Noriega and Alex Pentland Development and Decentralization: Linguistic, Ethnic Diversity, and Genes Measuring Regional Ethnolinguistic Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Surveys vs. GIS Boris Gershman and Diego Rivera Geography, Climate, and Genes in Development Studies Robert Klitgaard, Johannes W. Fedderke, and Valerio Napolioni Public Investment Choices by Local and Central Governments Katrina Kosec and Tewodaj Mogues Economic Transformation, Training and Managerial Skills Economic Transformation in Africa from the Bottom Up: New Evidence from Tanzania Xinshen Diao, Josaphat Kweka, Margaret McMillan, and Zara Qureshi Is There a Cost-Effective Means of Training Microenterprises? Wyatt Brooks, Kevin Donovan, and Terence R. Johnson Medium-Run Impacts of Management Training in Garment Clusters Yuki Higuchi, Edwin Paul Mhede, Vu Hoang Nam, and Tetsushi Sonobe Data for Development Is Informal Redistribution Costly? Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment in Senegal Marie Boltz, Karine Marazyan, and Paola Villar Comparing Costs of Living across World Cities Shohei Nakamura, Rawaa Harati, Somik V. Lall, Yuri M. Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, William Vigil Oliver, Marko Olavi Rissanen, and Mizuki Yamanaka The ABCDE of Big Data: Assessing Biases in Call-detail records for Development Estimates Gabriel Pestre, Emmanuel Letouzé, and Emilio Zagheni Understanding Nonresponse Rates: Insights from 600,000 Opinion Surveys Germán Reyes Editors Kaushik Basu and Andrew Foster Downloaded from [https://academic.oup.com/wber/issue/34/Supplement_1](https://academic.oup.com/wber/issue/34/Supplement_1) by guest on 23 June 2021 THE WORLD BANK ECONOMIC REVIEW EDITORS Eric Edmonds, Dartmouth College Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College CO-EDITORS Francisco H. G. Ferreira, World Bank Karla Hoff, World Bank Leora Klapper, World Bank Aart C. Kraay, World Bank David J. McKenzie, World Bank Luis Servén, World Bank The editorial team would like to thank former editor Andrew Foster for partially overseeing the review process of some of the articles in this issue. ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR Marja Kuiper EDITORIAL BOARD Lori Beaman, Northwestern University, USA Haroon Bhorat, University of Cape Town, South Africa Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University, USA Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, World Bank Ashwini Deshpande, Delhi University, India Pascaline Dupas, Stanford University, USA Eduardo Engel, University of Chile, Chile Claudio Ferraz, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil Frederico Finan, University of California, Berkeley,

FAQs

What is the document’s main theme?

The supplement focuses on financial inclusion and borrower data in the context of development economics research presented at the 2016 Annual Bank Conference.

What key resources or data sources are highlighted?

The Global Findex database is featured, with emphasis on measuring financial inclusion and identifying opportunities to expand access and usage of financial services.

What types of research topics are included beyond financial inclusion metrics?

The supplement covers how information sharing, collateral versus guarantees, health information dynamics, and big-data measurement and bias affect development-related outcomes.

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