“Benchmarking Financial Systems around the World.” Policy Research Working Paper 6175, World Bank, Washington, DC. (A version of the paper also appeared in the Journal of Financial Perspectives.) The ...

Much like water, data is all around us. And much like water, data is an invaluable resource that leads to better development outcomes. So for the past decade, the World Bank’s Open Data Initiative has ...

The World Bank Group has reported a significant rise in formal saving across developing nations, with 40 per cent of adults now using bank accounts or other financial services to save.This milestone, ...

ONLY 50% of Filipino adults had financial accounts at end-2024 even as 78% own mobile phones, according to the World Bank. The World Bank said in The Global Findex Database 2025 report released on ...

A DECADE after the government rolled out a National Strategy for Financial Inclusion (NSFI), more than four million adult Filipinos do not have any bank, mobile, or digital financial accounts, latest ...

Whether you think the World Bank is an engine of worldly improvement or a bunch of fascist goons, you'll probably still want to look at their exhaustive trove of data, which was made available ...

Pakistan's poverty crisis continues to spiral out of control, with the World Bank's 2025 assessment revealing a shocking 44.7 ...

Whether you think the World Bank is an engine of worldly improvement or a bunch of corrupt plutocrats, you'll probably still want to look at their exhaustive trove of data, which Google made ...