Banking the world : empirical foundations of financial inclusion / edited by Robert Cull, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, and Jonathan Morduch.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Half the world is unbanked / Alberto Chaia [and others] -- Cause and effect of financial access: cross-country evidence from the FinScope surveys / Patrick Honohan, Michael King -- How to ask households about financial services: experimental evidence from Ghana and Timor-Leste / Robert Cull, Kinnon Scott -- Going with the flow: measuring financial usage in poor households / Daryl Collins -- The economic impact of expanding access to finance in Mexico / Miriam Bruhn, Inessa Love -- Finance and hunger: empirical evidence of the agricultural productivity channel / Stijn Claessens, Erik Feijen -- Entrepreneurial finance in the wester Balkans: characteristics of the newly self-employed in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia / Ash Demirgüç-Kunt, Leora F. Klapper, Georgios A. Panos -- The impact of international remittances on income, work efforts, poverty, and inequality: evidence from Vietnam household living standard surveys / Nguyen Viet Cuong, Marrit van den Berg, Robert Lensink -- Mortgage finance in Central and Eastern Europe: opportunity or burden? / Thorsten Beck, Katie Kibuuka, Erwin R. Tiongson -- Measuring personality traits and predicting loan default with experiments and surveys / Dean Karlan, Senhil Mullainathan, Omar Robles -- Valuing financial literacy / Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson, Bilal Zia -- Use of biometric technology in developing countries / Xavier Giné [and others] -- Accessing credit from banks, microfinance institutions, and informal groups: what is the role of social capital? / Anni Heikkilä, Panu Kalmi, Olli-Pekka Ruuskanen -- Ten research questions / Jonathan Morduch.