Financial Access

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Basel III & Unintended Consequences for Emerging Markets and Developing Economies - Part 3: An Unlevel Playing Field Between Domestic and Foreign Banks Might Increase Governments’ Funding Costs
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
May 16, 2018
Responding to the latest assessment of Mexico’s implementation of the Basel III recommendations, the Mexican authorities argued that regulations for countries hosting foreign banks’ subsidiaries and for the parent countries of the subsidiaries should be aligned “in order to prevent...
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Basel III & Unintended Consequences for Emerging Markets and Developing Economies - Part 2: Effects on Trade Finance
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
and
Danial Muhammad
May 15, 2018
Just as Basel III, among other factors, played a role in the decline in the volume of cross-border lending from advanced economies to EMDEs, it created incentives for a shift in the composition of these flows. Banks’ exposures to certain business lines have been a...
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The Clock is Ticking on Financial Inclusion and a Focus on Women Can Help
Mayra Buvinic
May 14, 2018
A sense of urgency was present at a recent World Bank Spring meeting on financial inclusion. This is not surprising, given the Bank’s ambitious goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020. Two years to go and globally about 1.7 billion adults remain unbanked—close to 1 billion of the...
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Basel III & Unintended Consequences for Emerging Markets and Developing Economies - Part 1: Cross-border Spillover Effects
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
May 14, 2018
Basel III is the most extensive, post-global crisis financial regulatory standard to date, but it is rarely discussed by development economists. This is a major oversight.
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How Illicit Finance Controls Can Make It Harder for Nonprofits to Serve the World’s Neediest —and What to Do about It
Jim Woodsome
and
Michael Pisa
March 05, 2018
A growing number of humanitarian aid organizations operating in conflict zones are  having trouble finding banks willing to work with them. We attended an international stakeholder dialogue on ensuring financial services for nonprofit organizations, and offer our preliminary thou...
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On the Docket for Development in 2018: CGD Experts Weigh in
Owen Barder et al.
January 08, 2018
Here at CGD, we’re always working on new ideas to stay on top of the rapidly changing global development landscape. Whether it’s examining new technologies with the potential to alleviate poverty, presenting innovative ways to finance global health, assessing changing leadership at inter...

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Can Digital Currencies Improve Financial Access?
Michael Pisa
October 16, 2017
As the evidence of mobile money’s ability to improve financial access continues to grow, some in the development community are exploring whether a new wave of digital innovation, including digital currencies and blockchain technology, can play a similar role. To date, however, only a small num...