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Corporate Governance and Access to Finance - ESBG

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5.2.3. <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Governance</strong> <strong>and</strong> Number of Deposits(corrected by adult population)The third dimension of <strong>Access</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Finance</strong> we have considered is thenumber of deposits per 1,000 adults (potential clients), which is atraditional measure of financial outreach. To the extent that <strong>Corporate</strong><strong>Governance</strong> fosters financial inclusion, one would expect a positivecorrelation between these two variables. The available data – for the caseof WSBI members– confirm the expected correlation in the case ofdeveloping countries. Nevertheless, as with the average loan size,the explana<strong>to</strong>ry power of this variable is relatively small (5.7 percent) <strong>and</strong>the small number of observations makes these results not very reliable.Chart 15. Overall <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Governance</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Access</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Finance</strong> –deposits per 1,000 adultsSource: Own elaboration. Afi, Analistas Financieros Internacionales.The tendency line helps <strong>to</strong> visualise the correlation between the Overall <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Governance</strong>Index <strong>and</strong> <strong>Access</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Finance</strong> measured as deposits per 1,000 adults.89

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