Aug 16, 2018 | blog, Financial Inclusion
Building a more open and inclusive digital payments infrastructure can significantly boost financial inclusion and economic opportunity. Such infrastructure can increase levels of digital payment usage, and hence economic activity in the formal economy, particularly...
Jun 25, 2018 | blog, Financial Inclusion
The term “late capitalism”, first used by German economist Werner Sombart in the early-1900s, is coming back into vogue. The phrase is increasingly being used to describe the problems facing the modern global economy. These include gaping inequalities of wealth,...
Apr 4, 2018 | blog, Financial Inclusion
How financial inclusion reduces poverty, income inequality An estimated 2 billion adults have no access to formal financial services worldwide. More than half of them live in Asia. Access to finance is a major constraint to doing business, especially at small- and...