Can Islamic Banking Increase Financial Inclusion? /

The paper analyses existing country-level information on the relationship between the development of Islamic banking and financial inclusion. In Muslim countries-members of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC)-various indicators of financial inclusion tend to be lower, and the share of exc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ben Naceur, Sami
Other Authors: Barajas, Adolfo, Massara, Alexander
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/031
Online Access:Full text available on IMF