Given that a majority of the world's financially excluded and underserved customers live in rural areas, extending rural CICO agent networks is critical to further financial inclusion. The challenge is the difficulty most agent business models face in viably operating in many of these rural areas, which results in a large rural agent coverage gap.
Authors
- Disclosure Date
- 2023/11/30
- Disclosure Status
- Disclosed
- Doc Name
- Agent Network Journeys Toward the Last Mile - A cross-country perspective
- Product Line
- Advisory Services & Analytics
- Published in
- United States of America
- Rel Proj ID
- 1W-Cico Agent Networks In Financial Inclusion -- P175824
- Sector
- Central Government (Central Agencies)
- Series Name
- CGAP focus note;
- TF No/Name
- TF0B4345-DFS Distribution
- Theme
- Financial Infrastructure and Access,Gender,Human Development and Gender,Financial inclusion,Finance,Payment & markets infrastructure
- Unit Owning
- EFI-CGAP (EFICG)
- Version Type
- Final
- Volume No
- 1
