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Building Inclusive Financial Sectors for Development

This United Nations report presents a new guide and tool designed to help policy makers consider how best to build inclusive financial sectors for development.  Downloadable in chapters, headings include:

1. Setting the stage for building inclusive financial sectors
2. What limits access to formal financial services
3. Why retail financial institutions can serve poor and low-income people better
4. Access to financial markets: a challenge for microfinance institutions
5. The policy framework and public sector role in inclusive finance
6. Legal models, regulation and supervision in the context of inclusive finance
7. Policy issues and strategic options
8. Dialogue as a prelude to action

 

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