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  • Algorithms for inclusion : data driven lending for women owned SMEs (English)

    All over the world, women have less access to credit than men. Because of both discriminatory property laws and unwritten social customs, women are less likely than men to own high-value assets that can...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 116858 Document Date: June 26, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: 000478170:Rachel Dawn Coleman:rcoleman1@worldban,k.org,Alibhai,Aly Salman,Achew,Mengistu Bessir,Coleman,Rachel Dawn,Khan,Anushe A.,Strobbe,Francesco

  • Algorithms for inclusion : data driven lending for women owned SMEs (English)

    All over the world, women have less access to credit than men. Because of both discriminatory property laws and unwritten social customs, women are less likely than men to own high-value assets that can...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 116981 Document Date: June 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alibhai,Aly Salman,Achew,Mengistu Bessir,Coleman,Rachel Dawn,Khan,Anushe A.,Strobbe,Francesco

  • Financing the future : building an open, modern and inclusive financial system (Burmese)

    Myanmar’s financial system is undergoing a rapid transformation. A history of economic isolation has left Myanmar with small and underdeveloped financial institutions and very low access to financial services...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 103337 Document Date: February 27, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Drees-Gross,Alexandra L.

  • All aboard! : policies for shared prosperity in Myanmar : All aboard! (Burmese)

    The November 8, 2015 elections in Myanmar marked a historic milestone in the country’s political and economic transition that began in 2011. Incoming policy makers are preparing to pick up the baton and...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 103334 Document Date: February 27, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rab,Habib Nasser,Zachau,Ulrich,Seck, Abdoulaye,Verghis,Mathew A.,Mohib,Saiyed Shabih Ali

  • From cash to accounts : switching how women save in Uganda (English)

    In Sub Saharan Africa women are often not protecting their savings through formal devices but instead keeping their savings in more vulnerable savings options. After participating in a savings promotion...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 98924 Document Date: July 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Buehren,Niklas

  • The potential of digital data : far can it advance financial inclusion? (Japanese)

    This focus note highlights where and how potential benefits can be realized, recognizing there are challenges and risks. Some hold that digital data are not a full substitute for the richness of an in-person...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 95202 Document Date: January 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chen,Gregory C.,Faz De Los Santos,Pedro Xavier

  • Bulgaria - Alternative dispute resolution for financial services options paper (Bulgarian)

    The objective of this technical note is to evaluate the existing legal, regulatory and institutional framework of financial alternative dispute resolution (ADR) body, for example an ombudsman mechanisms...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: ACS4668 Document Date: June 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Jaeger,Johanna,Thomas, David,Evgeniev, Evgeni Iliev