Financial Inclusion in Asia

Dr Sasidaran Gopalan is a Research Fellow at the Asia Competitiveness Institute at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Prior to this, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Emerging Market Studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study.  Dr Tomoo Kikuchi is a Senior Research Fellow at Centre on Asia and Globalisation (CAG) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. His research interests include: economic growth and development, international trade and investment, asset price bubbles and political economy.

Section I: Measurement and Determinants.- Chapter 1) Measuring Financial Inclusion; Mandira Sarma.- Chapter 2) Determinants of Financial Inclusion in Asia; Zuzana Fungáčová and Laurent Weill.- Section II: Financial Inclusion: Importance and Implications.- Chapter 3) Financial Inclusion, Poverty and Income Inequality in Developing Asia; Cyn-Young Park.- Chapter 4) Financial inclusion and Monetary Policy, Aaron Mehrotra.- Section III: Financial Inclusion in Asia: Country Experiences.- Chapter 5) Indonesia: Moving towards Digital Payment System, Moekti Soejachmoen.- Chapter 6) Financial Inclusion Policies in Sri Lanka: Status and Issues, Ganga Tilakaratna.- Chapter 7) Microfinance and Financial Inclusion in India, Rajesh Chakrabarti and Kaushiki Sanyal.