Measuring Financial Access: 10 Years of the IMF Financial Access Survey

By Marco A Espinosa-Vega, Kazuko Shirono, Hector Carcel Villanova, Esha Chhabra, Bidisha Das, Yingjie Fan

May 12, 2020

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Marco A Espinosa-Vega, Kazuko Shirono, Hector Carcel Villanova, Esha Chhabra, Bidisha Das, and Yingjie Fan. Measuring Financial Access: 10 Years of the IMF Financial Access Survey, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2020) accessed November 14, 2024

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Summary

This departmental paper marks the 10th anniversary of the IMF Financial Access Survey (FAS). It offers a retrospective of the FAS database, along with some reflections as to its future directions. Since its 2009 launch, the FAS has provided granular data on access to and use of financial services. It is a supply-side database with annual global coverage based on data sourced directly from financial service providers—aimed at supporting policymakers to target and evaluate financial inclusion policies. Its data collection has kept pace with financial innovation, such as the rise of mobile money and growing demand for gender-disaggregated data—and the FAS must continue to evolve.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Economic and financial statistics, Financial inclusion, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Financial services, Financial statistics, Mobile banking, Mobile internet, Technology

Keywords: Agent outlet, Asia and Pacific, Commercial banks, DP, DPPP, FAS Coverage, FAS data, FAS data collection, FAS gender, FAS indicator, FAS usage indicator, Financial inclusion, Financial statistics, Global, Internet banking, Mobile banking, Mobile internet, Money agent, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

Publication Details

Pages:

54
Volume:

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Departmental Paper No. 2020/008
Stock No:

MFAEA
ISBN:

9781513538853
ISSN:

2616-5333

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