Financial Inclusion

A Practitioner course on - Use of technology and important tools of Financial Inclusion

An Evergrowing Practitioner course on - How Technology can help in Financial Inclusion. Global Economy.

A Practitioner's overview on - How Financial Inclusion can be addressed through literacy and the role of government.

This book investigates the regulation and promotion of financial inclusion and provides a comparative analysis of the regulation, promotion and enforcement of the relevant laws in the SADC (in particular, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe), as well as the challenges of financial inclusion. In turn, it evaluates financial inclusion in the context of specific challenges faced by unbanked and underbanked customers, who are easy targets for cyber criminals because they tend to have lower levels of digital literacy.

Financial inclusion has become a major subject of interest among policymakers, researchers, and other financial sector stakeholders. Many countries, for example, have recently adopted explicit financial inclusion strategies with targets for financial inclusion. The interest reflects an increased recognition that financial inclusion can be a driver of economic growth and poverty alleviation, and that many individuals and firms are excluded unnecessarily from even basic financial services. About half of the world’s adult population― more than 2.5 billion people―have no bank account is one powerful example. Barriers such as cost, travel distance, and amount of paperwork and requirements play an important role. Many of these barriers can be addressed by better policies.

Innovative Strategies, Policies, and Technologies for Inclusive Financial Systems

Innovative Strategies, Policies, and Technologies for Inclusive Financial Systems

The Little Data Book on Financial Inclusion 2012 is a pocket edition of the Global Financial Inclusion Index ( Global Findex ) database providing country-level indicators on the use of formal bank accounts, payments behavior, savings patterns, credit patterns, and insurance decisions. It provides data on financial inclusion by key demographic characteristics gender, age, education, income, and rural or urban residence. The book includes summary pages for 147 economies and regional and income group averages.

Financial inclusion has become an important global agenda and priority for policymakers and regulators in many countries for sustainable long-term economic growth. This book provides a brief guideline about the financial inclusion and the role of banking system on it which help the banks as well as regulator to select an effective banking structure and efficient composition of different factors to best utilization of their devoted resources in the context of a developing economy. It also provides an understanding regarding the loopholes of the present financial inclusion system.