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Productivity and Financial Inclusion: A Response to the Economic Slowdown

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By Tomas Miller and Verónica Trujillo

Tomas Miller joined the Multilateral Investment Fund in 2000 and heads its Access to Finance Unit, overseeing a loan and equity portfolio related to microfinance, venture capital, early-stage equity, small business financing, and financial services for low-income people.

How are financial inclusion and productivity linked? And why are these two pieces of the puzzle important for the economic development of Latin America and the Caribbean?

Insufficient growth in productivity
has been identified as a key factor in the relative backwardness of the economy of Latin America and the Caribbean compared with other regions read more >>>

Source : HuffingtonPost.Com