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

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 to provide practical case studies of financial inclusion, rather than focus on academic debates such...