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> Posted by Leora Klapper, Lead Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Research Team of the Development Research Group at the World Bank

Today the World Bank, in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, unveils an important new source of information that can help advance the financial inclusion agenda. We call it the “Global Findex,” short for the Global Financial Inclusion Database, and it is the first large-scale, comparable, demand-side financial inclusion data-collection exercise of its kind. Using the Gallup World Poll survey, we measure how over 150,000 adults in 148 economies save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. We also have the ability to disaggregate by gender, age, education, and income, allowing researchers to more precisely identify the unbanked. Eager to get your hands on the data? Click here.

For those that are still with me, let me share some of our initial findings: Read the rest of this entry »