Financial Inclusion : Zooming in on Latin America /

Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have made important strides in promoting financial inclusion of firms and households. However, while the region is broadly at par with its peers on financial inclusion of firms, household inclusion lags behind. Nonetheless, there is substantial hete...

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Autore principale: Dabla-Norris, Era
Altri autori: Deng, Yixi, Ivanova, Anna, Karpowicz, Izabela
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/206
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF
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