Documentos e informes
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The pros and cons of agent banking : evidence from Senegal (Inglés)
This study seeks to estimate the effects of access to agent banking on opening and usage of a savings account in urban and peri-urban areas in Senegal. A randomly selected group of individuals were given...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 126040 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Buri,Sinja,Cull,Robert J.,Giné, Xavier,Harten,Sven,Heitmann,Soren
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Banking with agents : experimental evidence from Senegal (Inglés)
This paper uses a randomized controlled trial to study the effects of access to agent banking. Individuals were encouraged to open an account and transact at a banking agent or a branch of a financial...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS8417 Fecha del documento: 19 de abril de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Buri,Sinja,Cull,Robert J.,Gine,Xavier,Harten,Sven,Heitmann,Soren
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Agent banking in a highly under-developed financial sector : evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Inglés)
The paper provides evidence on the number and volume of financial transactions undertaken by agents (local businesses that double as more convenient, lower cost alternatives to formal branches) of the...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7984 Fecha del documento: 27 de febrero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cull,Robert J.,Gine,Xavier,Harten,Sven,Rusu,Anca Bogdana
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Women make the best DFS agents : how financial sector alternative delivery channels create business opportunities for women in emerging markets (Inglés)
New business opportunities are being created for micro entrepreneurs by digital financial services (DFS) and agent banking in Sub-Saharan Africa. The agents who deliver these financial services are mostly...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 128215 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Harten,Sven,Rusu,Anca Bogdana
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Find the gap : can big data help to increase digital financial services adoption? (Inglés)
Big data is a big topic. Rarely a day passes without news of innovative applications of the data all produce through frequent use of technology. It is also increasingly recognized that effective analysis...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 128214 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Harten,Sven,Blumenstock,Joshua Evan,Khan,Muhammad Raza Ur Rehman,Kinzinger,Johannes Philipp
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Big data innovation challenge : pioneering approaches to data-driven development (Inglés)
Big data can sound remote and lacking a human dimension, with few obvious links to development and impacting the lives of the poor. Concepts such as anti-poverty targeting, market access or rural electrification...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 107751 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Fernandes,Erick C.M.,Jimenez,Daniel Regis,Delerce,Sylvain,Harten,Sven,Kaiser,Kai-Alexander,Kelm,Kathrine M.,Krambeck,Holly,Lemieux,Victoria Louise,Gaba,Kwawu Mensan,Newhouse,David Locke,Rodriguez,Camila,Villaveces,Andres,Wang,Wei Winnie,Adelman,Melissa Ann,Gonzalez,Alvaro S.,Hernandez Ore,Marco Antonio,Khokhar,Tariq Afzal,Kilic,Talip,Lozano Gracia,Nancy
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Who are the microfinance clients? : a case study on customer segmentation and product development (Inglés)
Two thirds of adults in Sub-Saharan Africa don’t have access to formal financial services, which means the large majority do not have access to secure and productive means of saving, safe, and efficient...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 128213 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Harten,Sven,Buri,Sinja
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Greenfield microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa : benchmarking quality, growth, and outreach (Inglés)
The greenfield model embodied a new approach to cross-border banking on the continent, designed to reach poorer market segments via newly built retail branches. The objective of benchmarking the financial...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 128212 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cull,Robert J.,Harten,Sven,Bull,Greta L.
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Benchmarking the financial performance, growth, and outreach of greenfield microfinance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa (Inglés)
In recent years there has been a rapid increase in the presence and growth of greenfield microfinance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper uses regressions to benchmark those African greenfields...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7029 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bull,Greta L.,Cull,Robert J.,Harten,Sven,Nishida,Ippei