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Contents

  • ABSTRACT

  • I. INTRODUCTION

  • II. RELATED LITERATURE

    • A. Formal vs Informal Financial Inclusion, Mobile Banking

    • B. Monetary and Financial Sector Policies and Financial Inclusion

  • III. KEY STYLIZED FACTS OF FORMAL VS. INFORMAL FINANCIAL ACCESS

    • A. Defining Formal and Informal Financial Access

    • B. Stylized Facts

  • IV. WHAT DRIVES THE TYPES OF FINANCIAL ACCESS?

    • A. Empirical Strategy

    • B. Choice of Explanatory Variables

    • C. Results

  • V. CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS

  • REFERENCES

  • FIGURES

  • 1. Financial Inclusion Around the World

  • 2. Financial Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • 3. Decomposing Mobile Financial Access

  • 4. Savings and Borrowing: 2014 vs 2017, by Region

  • 5. Payments and Transfers: 2014 vs 2017

  • 6. Financial Inclusion by Individual Characteristics: 2017

  • 7. Average Number of Macroprudential Tools

  • 8. Margin Plots of Baseline Multinomial Logit Regressions

  • TABLES

  • 1. Multinomial Logit Regressions with Baseline Controls

  • 2. Multinomial Logit Adding Financial and Monetary Variables

  • 3. Simple Logit Regression on Mobile Banking Access

  • 4. Multinomial Logit Regressions with Baseline Controls—Borrowing and Saving

  • 5. Adding Financial and Monetary Variables—Borrowing and Saving

  • 6. Multinomial Logit Regressions—Macroprudential Policy Tightening (iMaPP)

  • 7. Multinomial Logit Regressions—Financial and Monetary Variables—by Level of Financial Development

  • 8. Multinomial Logit Regressions—Financial and Monetary Variables—Interaction with Personal Characteristics

  • APPENDIX TABLES

  • 1. Findex Questionnaire Mapping to Index

  • 2. Variables’ Definition and Data Sources

  • 3. Variables’ Mean and Standard Deviation

  • 4. List of Countries in the Database

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Drivers of Financial Access: the Role of Macroprudential Policies
Author:
Ms. Corinne C Delechat
,
Lama Kiyasseh
,
Ms. Margaux MacDonald
, and
Rui Xu