Developing Countries: Financial Services
International Development
Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps her Department is taking to support access to financial services in the developing world.
Alan Duncan (Minister of State, International Development; Rutland and Melton, Conservative)
DFID
plans to help more than 50 million people and 200,000 small businesses
access savings, credit and insurance over current spending review period
(2010-11 to 2014-15).
DFID is also working with
the private sector to design, pilot and increase the scope of new
financial services products, including to improve ways of delivering
these products.