Access to Financial Services

In many developing countries less than half the population has access to formal financial services, and in most of Africa less than one in five households has access. Lack of access to finance is often the critical mechanism for generating persistent income inequality, as well as slower economic gro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Beck, Thorsten, Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli, Honohan, Patrick
Published: World Bank 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4426