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  • Unlocking innovation in the Middle East through financial inclusion

    May 2, 2016 Editor 0

    I recently attended an SME Conference in Jordan around SME Finance and Employment – extremely important issues in a troubled region.  All participants agree that much more needs to be done to address the lack of jobs in the region and to increase financial access at all levels, to individuals, households and small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs).

    The Middle East remains the most financially excluded region in the world despite being a middle income region.

    Only 4% of unbanked adults in the Middle East say that they don’t have an account because they don’t need one. In other words, it is clear there is widespread unmet demand for financial services.

    A person living in the Middle East is less likely to have a bank account than is a low-income person living in Africa or South Asia, and significantly less likely than a person living in Latin America, Eastern Europe or East Asia from comparable middle income country or region. This poses a dilemma – why?

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