Access to Finance and the Financial Sector

Selected Resources on:

• Access to finance
• Finance and the poor
• The role of finance in the MDG

Financial Sector Policy and the Poor: Selected Findings and Issues - Patrick Honohan

Access to Financial Services: A Review of the Issues and Public Policy Objectives - Stijn Claessens 

Finance, Inequality, and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence - Asli Demirguc-Kunt

Indicators of Financial Access Household Level Surveys - Anjali Kumar

International Year of Microcredit Initiates Cooperation to Develop Core and Headline Indicators: World Bank, DFID and FinMark Trust Team Up to Measure Access to Finance

FSE work on Access to Financial Data

• Conference: Financial Access for All: Better Measurement, Monitoring and Policy Action  (June 2, 2005) Papers available
  The week of June 20, 2005 saw high-level political and technical meetings related to the International Year of Microcredit held in Paris and Frankfurt. Organized in conjunction with a meeting of the Advisors Group to the International Year of Microcredit as well as the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) conference "Expanding Access to Microfinance: Challenges and Actors," the World Bank, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) hosted a technical meeting on June 21 titled “Financial Access for All: Better Measurement, Monitoring and Policy Action” to further examine the critical issue of how to measure access to finance.  Participants included donors, international financial institutions, policymakers and representatives from the private sector. 

AccessFinance Newsletter

Each newsletter will feature articles, and highlights selected news items, papers, events and internet resources under four main categories: Access to Financial Services, Credit Information, Payment Systems and Remittances.