TY - BOOK ID - 30563762 TI - Global Financial Development Report 2014 : Financial Inclusion. AU - World Bank AU - World Bank. PY - 2015 SN - 082139990X 0821399853 1306180619 PB - Washington, DC : World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Finance KW - Financial institutions KW - Financial services industry. KW - International finance. KW - Government policy. KW - State supervision. KW - International monetary system KW - International money KW - Services, Financial KW - Funding KW - Funds KW - International economic relations KW - Service industries KW - Economics KW - Currency question KW - World Bank KW - Világbank KW - Banque internationale pour la reconstruction et le développement KW - Mezhdunarodnyĭ bank dli︠a︡ rekonstrukt︠s︡ii i razvitii︠a︡ KW - MBRR KW - Sekai Ginkō KW - Kokusai Fukkō Kaihatsu Ginkō KW - Kukche Puhŭng Kaebal Ŭnhaeng KW - Segye Ŭnhaeng KW - IBRD KW - Welt Bank KW - Weltbank KW - Banque mondiale KW - Internationale Bank für Wiederaufbau und Entwicklung KW - Banco Internacional de Reconstrucción y Fomento KW - Banco Mundial KW - B.I.R.D. KW - BIRD KW - Banca Internațională pentru Reconstrucție și Dezvoltare KW - Mirovoĭ Bank KW - Svitovyĭ Bank KW - Svitovyĭ bank rekonstrukt︠s︡iï i rozvytku KW - Verdensbanken KW - Międzynarodowy Bank Rozwoju i Odbudowy KW - Bank al-Dawlī lil-Inshāʼ wa-al-Taʻmīr KW - Bank al-Dawlī KW - Världsbanken KW - Banca ricostruzione e sviluppo KW - Banca di ricostruzione e sviluppo KW - BIRF KW - I.B.R.D. KW - B.I.R.F. KW - Shih chieh yin hang KW - Shi jie yin hang KW - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development KW - World Bank Group. World Bank KW - Thanākhān Lōk KW - Bank Światowy KW - Viśva Baiṅka KW - Lōka Băṅkuva KW - Ngân hàng Thế giới KW - Vsemirnyĭ Bank KW - Bank Dunia KW - Msopʻlio Bankis KW - Banca Mondială KW - BM KW - Prapañca Byāṅku KW - Banca mondiale KW - Banca internazionale per la ricostruzione e lo sviluppo KW - Dhanāgār Bibhab Lok KW - البنك الدولي KW - بنك الدولي KW - 世界銀行 KW - 世界银行 KW - 国際復興開発銀行 KW - Dėlkhiĭn Bank KW - Дэлхийн Банк KW - Hamashkharhayin Banki KW - Svetska Banka KW - Wereldbank KW - Internationale bank voor herstel en ontwikkeling UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30563762 AB - Financial inclusion has become a major subject of interest among policymakers, researchers, and other financial sector stakeholders. Many countries, for example, have recently adopted explicit financial inclusion strategies with targets for financial inclusion. The interest reflects an increased recognition that financial inclusion can be a driver of economic growth and poverty alleviation, and that many individuals and firms are excluded unnecessarily from even basic financial services. About half of the world's adult population "more than 2.5 billion people" have no bank account is one powerful example. Barriers such as cost, travel distance, and amount of paperwork and requirements play an important role. Many of these barriers can be addressed by better policies. espite the high interest, there are still important gaps in knowledge about financial inclusion, what drives it, and what policies affect it. And while recent years have seen some increases in financial inclusion, there is still much scope to reduce barriers to access. However, one of the challenges is that efforts to increase inclusion, if not implemented well, can backfire. Deeply ingrained social problems cannot be resolved purely with an infusion of debt. If not done properly, it can have the opposite effect, making poor borrowers increasingly dependent on debt, and even contributing to financial instability. Global Financial Development Report 2014: Financial Inclusion is a new report from the World Bank Group. It takes a step back and re-examines financial inclusion from the perspective of new global datasets and new evidence. It builds on a critical mass of new research and operational work produced by World Bank Group staff as well as outside researchers and contributors. The report, the second in this series, follows up on the inaugural issue, the Global Financial Development Report 2013: Rethinking the Role of the State in Finance (http://www.worldbank.org/financialdevelopment). Accompanying the Global Financial Development Report 2014 is a vast body of underlying research and data. Among other things, this includes an expanded and updated version of the Global Financial Development Database, a dataset of over 70 financial system characteristics for 203 economies from 1960 to 2011, which is presented in the reports appendix. ER -