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New IMF Database on Financial Access Indicators

July 6, 2010

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Liliana Rojas-Suarez

I am encouraged by the IMF launch last week of a new online database of financial access indicators. When the initiative was announced at 2009 World Bank/IMF annual meetings in Istanbul, I wrote of the potential and need for such a database. This new resource will be an important tool for increasing financial inclusion. I’m glad that the IMF has followed through on commitments made last year. Read More…

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Policy Principles for Financial Access: The G-20 and the Center for Global Development

June 29, 2010

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Liliana Rojas-Suarez

I heartily applaud the release of the G-20 Principles for Innovative Financial Inclusion (click and scroll down to see them). At a time of increased focus on financial sector regulation to reduce risk, it is crucial that we not lose sight of the fact that increasing access to appropriate financial services remains essential to reducing poverty and achieving sustained growth. To this end, last October CGD released Policy Principles for Expanding Financial Access, a report by a task force of independent experts on the issues of financial inclusion and regulation. Read More…

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CGD Task Force Supports IMF Financial Access Initiative

October 5, 2009

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Audience members pose questions during the IMF/World Bank Annual meetings in Istanbul On Monday, October 5, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Princess Maxima of the Netherlands, an international development advocate and the UN Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development, launched the IMF’s new Access to Finance Project at the World Bank/IMF annual meetings in Istanbul.

This timely Dutch-funded initiative provides for the regular collection and sharing of national data on the geographic and demographic reach of financial services. Such data will be invaluable to policymakers around the globe, who increasingly recognize that access to financial services—secure savings, credit, insurance, even such seemingly simple things as checking accounts—is critical to equitable growth and poverty reduction. Read More…

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Just in Time: New CGD Task Force Report on Principles for Expanding Financial Access

September 30, 2009

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Recent developments have brought to the front the importance and relevance of the Center’s extensive work on improving access to financial services in developing countries, where a very large proportion of households and firms lack such access. First, in the Pittsburgh Summit Communiqué, the G-20 pledged to: Read More…

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