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Financial Inclusion for Poverty Alleviation: Issues and Case Studies for Sustainable Development book cover

1st Edition

Financial Inclusion for Poverty Alleviation Issues and Case Studies for Sustainable Development

Edited By Essam Yassin Mohammed, Zenebe Uraguchi Copyright 2018
278 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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More than one billion people still live below the poverty line – most of them in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Financial inclusion is a major issue, as more than three-quarters of the numbers of poor and disadvantaged women and men do not have access to financial products and services, such as bank accounts, affordable and suitable loans, and insurance. The key objective of this book is... Read more
  1. Introduction

    2. Zenebe Bashaw Uraguchi and Essam Yassin Mohammed

  2. From Access to Progress: Setting Our Sights on a Worthier Goal

    3. Leah Wardle

  3. The Bangladesh Experience on Financial Inclusion: A Market Systems Review

    4. Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar and Md. Ashraful Alam

  4. Financial Inclusion: Understanding Concept, Barriers and Measurement

    5. Rashmi Arora

  5. Towards inclusion through lessons from informal money lenders

    6. Camilla Andersson, Erik Holmgren, James MacGregor and Jesper Stage

  6. Extending access to the formal financial system: the Banking Correspondent business model

    7. Noelia Cámara

  7. Savings as Forward Payments: Innovations on Mobile Money Platforms

    8. Ignacio Mas

  8. Mobile Money and Financial Inclusion: The Case of Susu Operations in Ghana

    9. Eric Osei-Assibey

  9. Towards a gender transformative approach to financial inclusion: Lessons from CARE’s Village Savings and Loan Associations in sub-Saharan Africa

    10. Gerry Boyle

  10. Gender-based barriers and opportunities to financial inclusion: New evidence from Ghana

    11. Christian S. Otchia

  11. Islamic Finance Approach to Financial Inclusion to Enhance Shared-Prosperity

    12. Ayse Nur Aydin and Zamir Iqbal

  12. Vulnerability Reduction Efficacy of Financial Inclusion to Climate and Economic Changes: Evidences, Bottlenecks and Way Forward

    13. S.V.R.K. Prabhakar

  13. Green Microedit-Assisted Microenterprises in a Wetland Area of Bangladesh and its Implications for Women's Empowerment and Ecological Sustainability

    14. Khurshed Alam, Md. Habibur Rahman and Mohammed Salim Uddin

  14. Where to from here?

Essam Yassin Mohammed and Zenebe Bashaw Uraguchi

　

Biography

Essam Yassin Mohammed is Senior Economist, Sustainable Markets Group, at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London, UK.

Zenebe Bashaw Uraguchi is Senior Advisor, Market Systems Development, and Programme Coordinator, Eastern Europe Unit, for Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation, Switzerland.

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