Financial Inclusion: Programmes and Articles

Programmes  | Articles

Programmes

Government programmes

• Financial Education Master Plan (FEP), Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)
• Financial education program, U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, United States
• Financial inclusion, UN Advisors Group on Inclusive Financial Sectors, www.UNadvisorsgroup.org.

Civil society programmes

• Financial Services for the Poor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, http://www.gatesfoundation.org/topics/Pages/financial-services-for-the-poor.aspx
  The foundation is working to expand the availability of savings accounts and other financial services for poor people in the developing world.
• MyBnk Programmes, MyBnk, United Kingdom 
•  Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), www.cgap.org
  CGAP is an independent policy and research center dedicated to advancing financial access for the world's poor. It is supported by over 30 development agencies and private foundations who share a common mission to alleviate poverty. Housed at the World Bank, CGAP provides market intelligence, promotes standards, develops innovative solutions and offers advisory services to governments, microfinance providers, donors, and investors.
  

Articles

Key articles and research on financial inclusion issues are listed below, in alphabetical order, by author/institution:

A | B | C | D | E | F  | G | H |  I  |  J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

• Asobancaria, Balance de la Bancarización en Colombia, Semana Económica, November 2008.
• ANZ bank (2005), ANZ Financial Literacy and Inclusion: Global Benchmarking Report 2005, September 2005.
• Agrawal Amol, IDBI, The need for Financial Inclusion with an Indian perspective, Economic Research, March 3, 2008.

F

• Friends Provident Foundation (2009), Stephen Sinclair et al, Understanding financial inclusion - Using action research and a knowledge exchange review to establish what is agreed, and what remains contested
• www.fininc.eu: this website dedicated to financial inclusion has been developed for the European  "Mutual Learning on Financial Inclusion" project (December 2007 - December 2009) led by Réseau Financement Alternatif and financed by the European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunity PROGRESS Programe.

H

• HM Treasury, Financial inclusion: an action plan for 2008-11, December 2007.

I

• Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (2007), Poverty Reduction Through Enhanced Access to Financial Services: Case Studies of Botswana, Kenya and Namibia, Occasional Paper No. 010/2007, A Southern and Eastern Africa Policy Research Network Research.

K

• Elaine Kempson et al. (2004), Policy level response to financial exclusion in developed countries: lessons for developing countries, The Personal Finance Research Centre, University of Bristol, September 2004.

N

• Blog addressing financial inclusion http://neftriplecrunch.wordpress.com/tag/financial-exclusion/, The New Economics Foundation NEF), United Kingdom.
• National Australia Bank (2008), Reconciliation Action Plan: Building strong, inclusive and sustainable communities, December 2008
  A report regarding efforts on financial inclusion amongst Australian Aboriginal communities.
  

R

• RMIT University (2007), Saver Plus–encouraging savings and increasing financial capabilities among low-income families, June 2007.

S

• Scottish Council Foundation SCF (2007), Financial Capability and Inclusion in Rural Scotland, November 2007.
  
   

W

• Woodstock Institute (1997), Currency Exchanges Add to Poverty Surcharge for Low-Income Residents, Reinvestment Alert, Number 10, March 1997.