The 2014 financial inclusion action plan (FIAP) developed by the Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) highlighted ten action areas that were most important to advancing financial inclusion.
... Exibir mais + By endorsing the G20 action plan on small and medium enterprise (SME) financing in 2015, the G20 agreed, and encouraged non-G20 countries to fully develop credit infrastructure for SMEs, improve SME financial capability through targeted learning and support interventions, and enable competition through an enabling regulatory environment. This policy paper elaborates policy options that will be relevant for policy makers striving to achieve the agenda 2030 sustainable development goals and the Addis Abeba Action Agenda on financing for development. Rural micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSMEs) are vital to the health of the rural economy and global food security. These MSMEs, which include primary producers, processors and traders, face increasing income and asset loss risks due to the changing climate in general and more frequent disasters. They are often not equipped to absorb the economic effects of losses climate change may bring. Policies that address the financial bottlenecks they face are particularly important for the longer-term nature of climate smart investment. The objective of this document is to provide a synthesis of the finance and investment problems MSMEs face for adaptation when it comes to climate smart solutions needed and mitigation required and then to offer policy options for promoting climate smart adaptation for risk mitigation as well as fomenting investment in green technologies for MSMEs. This paper reviews existing policies incentivizing and regulating rural MSME climate smart financing and provides synthesis and illustrative evidence regarding performance and results of these policies. Chapter one gives introduction. Chapter two focuses on the need for addressing climate change and measures for risk reduction that rural MSMEs must adopt. Chapter three focuses on the opportunities that can be realized from new technologies and efficiencies that can be gleaned from green finance and investment. Chapter four presents examples of promising solutions that have been implemented or initiated, along with the policy implications. Chapter five presents a summary of policy analysis methodologies and applications in several cases and examples. Chapter six provides a policy assessment and outlines how policy can promote financing and investment for MSME climate smart adaptation. Annexes of eleven case studies are presented in chapter seven to illustrate and more comprehensively explain examples of implementation of climate smart financing and the policies and stakeholders involved.
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The new microfinance handbook provides a primer on financial services for the poor. It is written for a wide audience, including practitioners, facilitators, policy makers, regulators, investors, and donors working to improve the financial system, but who are relatively new to the sector.
... Exibir mais + It will also be useful for telecommunication companies and other support service providers, students and academics, and consultants and trainers. Although this book is in part an update of the original handbook, the growth of the sector and the complexity of the financial market system have led to a perspective much broader than the previous 'financial and institutional perspective.' As a result, additional chapters have been added to address issues more relevant than when the original handbook was written. To reflect this complexity, the author invited a number of experts to write many of the new chapters. In addition, given that this book does not go into as much detail as the previous book did, a list of key resources at the end of each chapter provides readers additional information on specific topics. Finally, although the title still uses the term microfinance, the book very much addresses the wider financial ecosystem, moving beyond the traditional meaning of microfinance to inclusive financial systems.
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