Finance For All? Policies And Pitfalls In Expanding Access

摘要

Recent enthusiasm about microfinance, culminating in the "Year of Microcredit" in 2005, may-well have been the proximate motivation for new two volumes on access to finance. Fortunately, the volumes take a much broader view, aggregating current research on how the breadth and depth of the entire financial sector affects individuals, firms and growth.rnThe first book (Finance for All or FFA) is written by three staff members of the Finance and Private Sector Development section of the World Bank's research department, all of whom are widely published in this area. Almost a textbook, the book provides a near-comprehensive overview of what is known about access to finance, with careful attention to policy prescriptions and needs for future research.