Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Zenebe B. Uraguchi and Essam Yassin Mohammed -- From access to progress : setting our sights on a worthier goal / Leah Wardle -- The bangladesh experience on financial inclusion : a market systems review / Rubaiyath Sarwar and Ashraful Alam -- Financial inclusion : understanding concept, barriers and measurement / Rashmi Arora -- Towards inclusion through lessons from informal money lenders / Camilla Andersson, Erik Holmgren, James MacGregor and Jesper Stage -- Extending access to the formal financial system: the banking correspondent business model / Noelia Cámara -- Savings as forward payments : innovations on mobile money platforms / Ignacio Mas -- Mobile money and financial inclusion : the case of susu operations in Ghana / Eric Osei-Assibey -- Towards a gender transformative approach to financial inclusion : lessons from CARE's village savings and loan associations in sub-Saharan Africa / Gerry Boyle -- Gender-based barriers and opportunities to financial inclusion : new evidence from Ghana / Christian S. Otchia -- Islamic finance approach to financial inclusion to enhance shared-prosperity / Ayse Nur Aydin and Zamir Iqbal -- Vulnerability reduction efficacy of financial inclusion to climate and economic changes : evidences, bottlenecks and way forward / S.V.R.K. Prabhakar -- Green microedit-assisted microenterprises in a wetland area of Bangladesh and its implications for women empowerment and ecological sustainability / Khurshed Alam, Md. Habibur Rahman and Mohammed Salim Uddin -- Where to from here? / Essam Yassin Mohammed and Zenebe B. Uraguchi.