Building Inclusive Financial Systems: A Framework for Financial Access
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (723 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0815708394 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 198 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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He served as chair and now is on the Executive Committee of the Section on Financial Institutions of the Association of American Law Schools, and he was co-organizer of the Law School's Conference on Globalization, Law & Development. Litan is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institut
Households, small enterprises, and the rural poor often have difficulty obtaining financial services for a multitude of reasons, including transaction costs, perceived risk, inadequate infrastructure, and information barriers. Broad-based and inclusive financial systems significantly raise growth, alleviate poverty, and expand economic opportunity. Access to Finance addresses the challenges of making financial systems more inclusive, emulating successful ventures in new markets, and utilizing technologies and government policies to support the expansion of financial access. The contributors examine many dimensions of financial access, including: • Measuring financial access • Understanding the impact of expanded access • Examining alternative institutional models • Exploring new technologies and information infrastructure • Evaluating government policies toward outreach.. Yet many financial institutions are now making profitable inroads
"A handful of graphs and an index round out this welcome contribution of ideas" according to Midwest Book Review. Building Inclusive Financial Systems is an anthology of scholarly essays by a wide variety of educated authors discussing how broad-based, inclusive financial systems can effectively reduce poverty and expand opportunity in developing countries. With an especial eye toward the field of microfinance, Building Inclusive Financial Systems offers solid grounding and r