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This report discusses the role of postal networks in Sri Lanka and its current and potential role of providing access to financial services. The report reviews the postal sector development in the country and the role of the postal network … Read more
This paper discusses the role of the postal network in expanding access to financial services in Vietnam. It reviews the public postal operator within the postal sector and within the broader context of the communications sector. The roles of the … Read more
This paper discusses the role of the postal network in expanding access to financial services in Kazakhstan. It reviews the public postal operator within the postal sector and within the broader context of the communications sector. The roles of the … Read more
Five years after UN members have declared unanimously, that they would bring an end to extreme poverty by 2015, it is time to see if the world achieved success. It is clear right away, that Africa will not reach these … Read more
5 Regional Case Studies: Asia Region Europe and Central Asia Region Middle East and North Africa Africa Region Latin America and the Caribbean Region 7 Country Case Studies: Egypt’s postal finance services Romania’s postal finance services Uganda’s postal finance … Read more
The UN framework for development is the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These goals are a set of targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women agreed upon by UN Members in 2000. In January 2005, … Read more
In many countries, post offices play an active role in the provision of basic financial services to all segments of the population, including rural communities, senior citizens, women and the poor. Post offices help to pool small savings and to … Read more
People don’t usually associate post offices with banks, but offering financial services through the post office network has proven an innovative way to expand access to banking in Europe, Asia and Africa, and postal banking seems to be arriving to … Read more
Slovenija je vodilna med prihodnjimi novimi članicami Evropske unije; ta ugotovitev se gotovo nanaša tudi na finančno in poštno področje. Na teh dveh pomembnih segmentih je v kratkem času dosegla povprečje EU, kar je izredno pomembno za vključevanje Slovenije v … Read more
Global experience shows that financial services contribute 40-80 per cent of the revenues of the postal departments, according to Mr Hans Boon, vice president ING(FI I&GA), Head of PostBank International Consultancy. Financial services sector is currently growing at a faster … Read more