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How donors can help build pro-poor financial systems (pdf 189kb)

Donors increasingly recognise the importance of integrating microfinance into formal financial systems to ensure permanent access to financial services for significant numbers of poor people.

This approach means the delivery of all forms of financial services by a range of institutions to everyone who needs them. Some development assistance agencies have long applied a financial systems approach in their microfinance operations.

This donor brief builds on these and other initial experiences to outline a practical way that donors can work, individually or in collaboration, to fund and support pro-poor financial systems.

 

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