The Pros and Cons of Agent Banking : Evidence from Senegal

This study seeks to estimate the effects of access to agent banking on opening and usage of a savings account in urban and peri-urban areas in Senegal. A randomly selected group of individuals were given information about a savings account. Half of...

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Main Authors:	Buri, Sinja, Cull, Robert, Giné, Xavier, Harten, Sven, Heitmann, Soren
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	AGENT BANKING RURAL FINANCE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/358311525841762069/The-pros-and-cons-of-agent-banking-evidence-from-Senegal http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29853

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spelling	okr-10986-298532021-05-25T10:54:37Z The Pros and Cons of Agent Banking : Evidence from Senegal Buri, Sinja Cull, Robert Giné, Xavier Harten, Sven Heitmann, Soren AGENT BANKING RURAL FINANCE This study seeks to estimate the effects of access to agent banking on opening and usage of a savings account in urban and peri-urban areas in Senegal. A randomly selected group of individuals were given information about a savings account. Half of the individuals were encouraged to open the account at the nearest agent, while the other half were encouraged to do so at the closest branch. In addition, half of the individuals in each of these two groups were also given a monetary incentive to open the account. Study participants thus fall into one of five groups: (i) offered information about the account (Info), monetary incentives to open it (Incentives), and told to open it at the branch (Branch); ii) info, incentives and told to open it with an agent (Agent), (iii) info, no Incentives and branch (iv) info, no incentives and agent and (v) no info. 2018-05-21T19:00:39Z 2018-05-21T19:00:39Z 2018-05 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/358311525841762069/The-pros-and-cons-of-agent-banking-evidence-from-Senegal http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29853 English Finance & PSD Impact;No. 48 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Africa Senegal
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description	This study seeks to estimate the effects of access to agent banking on opening and usage of a savings account in urban and peri-urban areas in Senegal. A randomly selected group of individuals were given information about a savings account. Half of the individuals were encouraged to open the account at the nearest agent, while the other half were encouraged to do so at the closest branch. In addition, half of the individuals in each of these two groups were also given a monetary incentive to open the account. Study participants thus fall into one of five groups: (i) offered information about the account (Info), monetary incentives to open it (Incentives), and told to open it at the branch (Branch); ii) info, incentives and told to open it with an agent (Agent), (iii) info, no Incentives and branch (iv) info, no incentives and agent and (v) no info.
format	Brief
author	Buri, Sinja Cull, Robert Giné, Xavier Harten, Sven Heitmann, Soren
author_facet	Buri, Sinja Cull, Robert Giné, Xavier Harten, Sven Heitmann, Soren
author_sort	Buri, Sinja
title	The Pros and Cons of Agent Banking : Evidence from Senegal
title_short	The Pros and Cons of Agent Banking : Evidence from Senegal
title_full	The Pros and Cons of Agent Banking : Evidence from Senegal
title_fullStr	The Pros and Cons of Agent Banking : Evidence from Senegal
title_full_unstemmed	The Pros and Cons of Agent Banking : Evidence from Senegal
title_sort	pros and cons of agent banking : evidence from senegal
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/358311525841762069/The-pros-and-cons-of-agent-banking-evidence-from-Senegal http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29853
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The Pros and Cons of Agent Banking : Evidence from Senegal

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