scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Predictive Insights for Advancing Financial Inclusion: A Human-Centric AI-Thinking Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng-Leong How ◽  
Sin-Mei Cheah ◽  
Aik Cheow Khor ◽  
Yong Jiet Chan

According to the World Bank, a key factor to poverty reduction and improving prosperity is financial inclusion. Financial service providers (FSPs) offering financially-inclusive solutions need to understand how to approach the underserved successfully. The application of artificial intelligence (AI) on legacy data can help FSPs to anticipate how prospective customers may respond when they are approached. However, it remains challenging for FSPs who are not well-versed in computer programming to implement AI projects. This paper proffers a no-coding human-centric AI-based approach to simulate the possible dynamics between the financial profiles of prospective customers collected from 45,211 contact encounters and predict their intentions toward the financial products being offered. This approach contributes to the literature by illustrating how AI for social good can also be accessible for people who are not well-versed in computer science. A rudimentary AI-based predictive modeling approach that does not require programming skills will be illustrated in this paper. In these AI-generated multi-criteria optimizations, analysts in FSPs can simulate scenarios to better understand their prospective customers. In conjunction with the usage of AI, this paper also suggests how AI-Thinking could be utilized as a cognitive scaffold for educing (drawing out) actionable insights to advance financial inclusion.

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 285
Author(s):  
Isabel Carrillo-Hidalgo ◽  
Juan Ignacio Pulido-Fernández

It is widely accepted that tourism, given the right conditions, can be an important instrument of economic growth and a means of improving the quality of life for the societies in which it is implemented, particularly in developing territories. International financial institutions are aware of the role that tourism can play in this regard and, accordingly, have included it within their strategies to further sustainable development and financial inclusion. The World Bank is one of the institutions working to foster tourism, although, interestingly, it only began working in this area very recently (2016). This paper analyses the role of the World Bank in the inclusive financing of tourism as an instrument of sustainable development and compares it with the finance allocated to another four sectors in the branch of trade and industry. To this end, using a system of indicators previously tested in the literature, it analyses a total of ninety-two projects directly related with tourism, trade, manufacture, services, and housing construction activity. The results obtained, when compared to the finance allocated to other sectors of trade and industry (to which tourism also belongs), indicate that the World Bank’s financing of tourism could sharpen its focus on financial inclusion, which would ensure greater efficiency and efficacy in the attainment of its poverty reduction and development goals.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
resista

Financial Inclusion is a national development strategy to encourage economic growth through equal distribution of income, poverty alleviation and financial system stability. This community-centered strategy needs to target groups experiencing barriers to accessing financial services. The inclusive financial strategy explicitly targets the groups with the greatest or unfulfilled needs for financial services namely the three categories of people (the poor, low-income, working poor / poor and the near-poor) and three cross-categories (migrant workers, women and underdeveloped regions).By 2019 Indonesia's target on the inclusive public financial index reaches 75%. Inclusive financial ratios have reached 63% of Indonesia's total population by the end of 2017. The government has established five pillars supporting SNKI to achieve the target. First, Financial Education. Second, the concrete Community Property Right has already been in the form of a land certification program. Third, Facilitating Intermediation and Financial Distribution Channels. Fourth, Consumer Protection. Fifth, Financial Services In Government Sector.To achieve an inclusive financial target of 75% by 2019, an additional 51,822,431 adult inclusive residents are required. From the survey results of the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia in 5 provinces, 35% of respondents do not have an account at the bank. As many as 32% of Indonesia's adult population has not saving on the basis of the World Bank Survey of Indonesia by the World Bank in 2012. Based on the same survey, 48% of Indonesian adult population save in formal financial institutions. According to World Bank (2011), Indonesian adult residents have accounts at formal financial institutions.The strategy of government, BI, and OJK, nowadays is by optimizing technology services to expand financial products and services to various community groups. An inclusive financial enhancement strategy will also involve civil service and civil registration agencies in various regions to update the data on people who do not have financial products and services. The access program for the financial sector is not only from savings, but also from credit, such as small business credit (KUR) or other small credit, especially digital technology or digitalization must be extended to 4G cellular technology. So for areas that can not signal, its range will be wider. If 4G can reach 50%, then this will help Indonesia's strategy to improve inclusive finance.The purpose of this study is to recommend a model of increasing public financial inclusion through digitizing financial inclusion. The research method is qualitative descriptive, through in depth interview with informant and systematic literature review.Based on the results of research, it is found that in the era of digital economy, the use of technology is one of the strategies that can be applied. Big Data Utilization in Private and Commercial Sector covers Finance field that is investment support, portfolio management, price forecasting, credit. In the field of Banking and Insurance namely credit and policy approval, money laundry detection. While in the field of Finance, Banking and Insurance Security is useful for fraud detection, access control, intrusion detection, virus detection.With digitalization, it is expected that more people can afford affordable financial services. More and more people who can access financial services will improve their lives and reduce poverty.


Author(s):  
Emmanuel Kwesi Arthur ◽  
Salome Mwongeli Musau ◽  
Festus Mithi Wanjohi

In the current dynamic world, those with no or little access to key financial products and services suffer a great deal of disservice. This study examines the effect of remittance channels (commercial banks and alternative sources) have on financial inclusion and then check the moderating effect of money remittance regulation on the relationship between the remittance channels and financial inclusion in Kenya. It uses the World Bank and Central Bank of Kenya’s dataset on remittances and financial inclusion covering the period from 2009 to 2018. We estimate our model using the Ordinary Least Square assumptions to find the association. We find that remittances from alternative channels other than commercial banks influence financial inclusion in Kenya. We further notice that the money remittance regulations have no moderating effect on the relationship between remittance channels and financial inclusion in Kenya. Our results suggest that commercial banks are not able to appropriately sell their products and services to remittance-receiving households while fintech and other internet remitting service providers seem to roll on products and services that enhance the use of savings and credit facilities. We suggest that more avenues and policies should be enacted to foster the use of alternative sources while improving structures within commercial banks to empower financial inclusion in Kenya


Author(s):  
Olga Pryazhnikova ◽  

The World Bank has made an important contribution to shaping the global agenda for reducing poverty, increasing prosperity and promoting sustainable development. The review examines the main milestones in changes of the World Bank’s activities in the field of social development. The evolution of the organization’s approaches to solving the problem of poverty reduction as one of the key obstacles to socio-economic development is outlined.


Author(s):  
Lettiah Gumbo ◽  
Precious Dube ◽  
Muhammad Ridwan

One of the most effective catalysts of economic growth of any nation is obviously financial inclusion. However, in developing countries such as Zimbabwe gender gap is still an impediment to the achievement of financial inclusion for all. Research findings for this paper show that, increasing women’s financial opportunities and financial awareness on how to access financial products and services will go a long way in reducing the gender gap. Furthermore, increasing access to and use of quality financial products and services is essential to inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction. Although the government of Zimbabwe is taking steps to increase women financial inclusiveness, research shows that women in Zimbabwe trail behind men in as far as access to financial services is concerned. Zimbabwean communities remain dominantly patriarchal and women are always lagging behind in developmental projects meant for their empowerment. This paper seeks to assess the implementation of women’s financial inclusion highlighting opportunities and barriers such as the gender gap and how this may be overcome. The study is qualitative in nature and therefore makes use of interviews and questionnaires for data collection. It is envisioned by the researchers that the research findings will be beneficial to women; their empowerment and development and national development. It is hoped to change the way in which the banking and financial sectors deal with women’s financial inclusion for the betterment of their livelihoods.  Furthermore, women’s financial empowerment will improve livelihoods of many families given the caring nature of mothers, sisters, aunts and grandmothers.


2020 ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Constantine Michalopoulos

The collaboration the U4 launched at Utstein covered a wide variety of development issues handled by different international institutions. This involved in the first place coordination of their positions at the World Bank and the IMF, and the UN and its funds, programmes, and agencies. The World/Bank IMF were very important both because of the size and extent of their own programmes but also for helping developing countries manage the overall poverty reduction strategies within which all bilateral aid was supposed to fit. Increasing the effectiveness of bilateral aid could only succeed if it were part of a consistent overarching multilateral effort. This chapter starts with a discussion of U4 efforts to ensure that the poverty reduction strategies developed with the help of the World Bank/IMF in connection with debt relief actually reflected developing country priorities. It then moves on to U4’s efforts to improve the effectiveness of UN programmes which tended to be characterized by fragmentation and inefficiencies. The last part addresses the problem of coherence and collaboration between the IMF and the World Bank—the international financial institutions, on the one hand, and the UN and its agencies, on the other.


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