Asia and the Pacific need to ensure not only that more people have access to financial products and services but also that the poor can wield them to build wealth.

While the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation or APEC broadly recognizes that financial inclusion is key to fighting poverty and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, more needs to be done to improve financial inclusion.

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About the speakers

Loi M. Bakani is governor of the Bank of Papua New Guinea.

Nobuhide Hayashi is Mizuho Bank chair and a member of Japan’s APEC Business Advisory Council.

Michelle Curry is CEO of the Foundation for Development Cooperation, Australia.

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