FINANCIAL INCLUSION

The Little Data Book on Financial Inclusion 2015 is a pocket edition of the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) database published in 2015. This data set represents a second round of data collection, following the initial round three years earlier. The database provides nationally representative, demand-side data on access to and use of accounts, credit, payments, and savings by adults a…

A New Database on Financial Development and Structure

Arecent and expanding literature establishes the importance of financial development for economic growth.1 Measures of the size of the banking sector and the size and liquidity of the stock market are highly correlated with subsequent GDP per capita growth. Moreover, emerging evidence suggests that both the level of banking sector development and stock market development exert a causal impact o…

NATURAL DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES: ENHANCING POVERTY ALLEVI…

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The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology

Since the late 1990s access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) has seen tremendous growth—driven primarily by the wireless technologies and liberalization of telecommunications markets. Mobile communications have evolved from simple voice and text services to diversified innovative applications and mobile broadband Internet. By the end of 2011, the number of mobile-cellular …