Enhancing Financial Inclusion and Advancement (EFInA) has launched a new capacity-building programme aimed at strengthening ...

A new study titled “A Cointegrating Linkage of Financial Inclusion, Institutional Quality and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan African Countries,” published in the International Journal of Financial ...

Economic benefits of financial inclusion, meaning a broadening access of the population to financial services, have been studied extensively, but less is known about its potential effects on financial ...

National Financial Inclusion Strategies (NFIS) typically set financial inclusion targets for the country’s population as a key metric of success. The availability of that data often underpins ...

This policy brief focuses on enhancing financial inclusion for Ethiopia’s older urban poor, emphasising the importance of access to formal financial services like banking, savings, loans, and ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation In this paper we study how competition and financial soundness affect financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) policies on financial inclusion, including planned take-off of Payment Service Banks (PSBs) and impact of mobile money, are expected to deepen financial ...

For many years, the United States has played a significant role in advancing the early microfinance revolution and the financial inclusion agenda worldwide. Access to and use of financial services ...

C. Leigh Anderson and Charles Lepepeule Machethe do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no ...