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THE GLOBAL FINDEX DATABASE 2021 Financial Inclusion, Digital Payments, and Resilience in the Age of COVID-19 By Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, and Saniya Ansar
The fourth edition of Global Findex—the world's most comprehensive database on financial inclusion—offers a lens into how people accessed and used financial services during COVID-19, when mobility restrictions and health policies drove increased demand for digital services of all kinds. Published every three years since 2011, Findex is the only global demand-side data source allowing for global and regional cross-country analysis to provide a rigorous and multidimensional picture of how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage financial risks. Findex 2021 data were collected from national representative surveys of about 130,000 adults in over 120 economies. The latest edition includes new series measuring financial health and resilience and contains more granular data on digital payments adoption, including merchant and government payments. The Global Findex is an indispensable resource for financial service practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and development professionals.
August 2022. 130 pages. Stock no. C211897 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1897-4). US$43.95
INTERNATIONAL DEBT STATISTICS 2023 By the World Bank
International Debt Statistics (IDS), a longstanding annual World Bank publication, featuring external debt statistics and analysis for around 125 low- and middle-income countries that report to the World Bank Debt Reporting System. IDS is internationally recognized as the premier publication for comprehensive cross-country comparable data on the external obligations of low- and middle-income countries; demand for IDS has been consistently high. IDS provides information on external debt stocks, flows and projected debt service payments, major economic aggregates, key debt ratios, average terms of new commitments, the currency composition of long-term debt and volume and terms of debt restructuring agreements. It also includes unique, highly disaggregated information by borrower, creditor type, and creditor country. The IDS coverage and content is continuously evolving to reflect changes in borrowing patterns and instruments and provide a comprehensive and timely account of the external debt obligations of each low- and middle-income country. These data aim to support debt management, institutional lending decisions and debt-related policy decisions and initiatives of the international community, and broad-based analysis of international capital flows.
WORLD BANK PUBLICATIONS AND ePRODUCTS
INTERNATIONAL DEBT STATISTICS November 2022. 204 pages. Stock no. C211902 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1902-5). US$49.95
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