Financial Sector Policy And The Poor: Selected Findings And Issues (World Bank Working Papers)
Автор:Patrick Honohan Год: 2004 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 0821359673 Book DescriptionFinancial Sector Policy and the Poor is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank?s ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion. This paper presents new empirical evidence on how financial sector policy can help the poor. It is often thought that promotion of specialized microfinance institutions is the best or only way forward. However, a strong mainstream financial system is also pro-poor?perhapseven more so. While mainstream financial depth is measurably associated with lower poverty, for microfinance this is not yet so. The roles played by microfinance and mainstream finance in tackling poverty should be regarded as complementary and overlapping rather than as competing alternatives. The essential similarities between the two will become more evident as individual microfinance firms, or associations of firms, grow to the scale needed for sustainability. Policy design...
