Exploring Business Pathways to Digital Financial Inclusion: Early Indications from a Field Visit to Ghana and Tanzania

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Title
Exploring Business Pathways to Digital Financial Inclusion: Early Indications from a Field Visit to Ghana and Tanzania
Author
Ignacio Mas; Shirley Mburu; David Porteous and David del Ser
Year
2015
Abstract
This document contains a report that explores an initial evaluation of the opportunities for spreading financial services through business networks in local communities across sub-Saharan Africa. The central premise is that small, local business that are able to establish a data-rich, trusted relationship with financial institutions can be effective channels for spreading the benefits of financial services indirectly into the communities that they operate in, through their base of customers, employees and suppliers.
Resource Subject
  • Digital Financial Services
  • Financial Inclusion
  • Financial Services
Keywords/Access Points
Financial Services; Bankable Frontier Associates
Geographic Locations
  • Ghana
  • Tanzania
Language
  • English
Special Collections
  • Knowledge Exchange Resources
Archival Record ID
MFA.2024.1038