In its fifth edition, this report focuses on recent developments in Africa's banking sectors and the policy options for … banking groups operating in Africa. Three thematic chapters address challenges and opportunities for financing investment in … Africa: - Investing sustainably in Africa's cities; - Mobilising agricultural value chain financing in Africa: why and how …

access to bank accounts. The present study investigates the drive to financial inclusion in the form of the growth in bank … bank accounts is not significantly associated with the reduction in below poverty line population across states. Providing …

promoter of public policies, the Central Bank of Argentina undergoes periodic efforts to measure, study and analyze the access … information available to the Central Bank in the last ten years to move beyond that limitation. The result is a set of economic …

This paper presents an assessment of financial inclusion in Suriname, mainly from the Central Bank’s perspective. It … examines existing data on financial inclusion and policy initiatives and measures the Central Bank of Suriname has taken to … various stakeholders involved with financial inclusion and education as well as with the relevant Central Bank departments in …

; however, it is still unclear whether financial inclusion increases bank profitability. The study assumes that financial … number of branches and ATMs had no significant effect on the bank's profitability. In sum, both leverage and bank size were …