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Focusing on Egypt&#8217;s situation with regard to financial inclusion, this presentation will overview the main barriers to financial inclusion and will discuss, drawing from various case studies and examples, how trade in services may be harnessed to promote financial inclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":28065,"template":"","meta":[],"tags":[534,645,981,982],"eces_event_category":[52],"class_list":["post-28055","eces_event","type-eces_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-financial-institution","tag-trade-policy","tag-financial-inclusion-initiatives","tag-electronic-payment","eces_event_category-distinguished-lectures"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Role of Services in Achieving Financial Inclusion - ECES<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eces.org.eg\/en\/eces_event\/the-role-of-services-in-achieving-financial-inclusion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Role of Services in Achieving Financial Inclusion - ECES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The situation is no different in Egypt, where despite improvements in recent years, only 14 per cent of adults have a bank account. 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