The demand for financial inclusion in Nigeria has remained strident even as the authorities roll out policies and instruments designed to ensure consumers of ...

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 ...

Financial inclusion (i.e., the availability and accessibility of financial services for individuals and businesses) is a fundamental goal for governments and organizations around the world. Despite ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What Is Digital Financial Inclusion? Digital financial inclusion revolves around ensuring that all individuals and businesses, particularly those in underserved or marginalised communities, have ...

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 ...