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Overview of Financial Inclusion in Pakistan

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  • Muhammad Subtain Raza
  • Muhammad Fayyaz
  • Nida Syed

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Inclusive growth is doable only by involving all financial stakeholders and channelizing all the resources in coherent ways. Financial inclusion is a novel approach which equip with different techniques to promote the financial accession and ultimately ensure financial progression for masses. Pakistan is considered as one of the largest rural communities based country in the world. Financial inclusion has targeted approach to provide banking and financial services to all people in a fair, lucent and evenhanded manner at reasonable cost. This paper is an endeavor to portray financial inclusion in Pakistan. This paper covers the basic concepts of financial inclusion, literature, current status and facts, initiatives of Pakistan in connection to financial inclusion, comparative analysis with main South Asian countries. Lastly it suggests some practical recommendations.

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  • Muhammad Subtain Raza & Muhammad Fayyaz & Nida Syed, 2015. "Overview of Financial Inclusion in Pakistan," International Journal of Management Sciences, Research Academy of Social Sciences, vol. 6(12), pages 572-581.
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