G20金融工作总结.pdf

Commonwealth Secretariat Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting Washington DC, USA, 7-8 October 20 10 Provisional Agenda Item 5 FMM(10)(O)5 MEETING OF COMMONWEALTH SENIOR FINANCE OFFICIALS 7 OCTOBER 2010 The G20’s Work on Financial Inclusion* Commonwealth Secretariat Marlborough House London SW1Y 5HX September 2010 ______________________ * Paper prepared by Australia as co-Chair - with Brazil - of the G20 Access Through Innovation Sub-Group of the G20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group. The views expressed do not necessarily represent the position of the Commonwealth Secretariat or member Governments of the Commonwealth. Introduction 1. The Commonwealth has long been associated with the international efforts to promote wider and deeper access to banking services and finance, by the poor and by micro-, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Efforts have been broad-ranging and within the Commonwealths areas of comparative advantage. This has included support for micro- enterprise development; work to build the foundations for effective access, including promoting financial literacy programmes among Commonwealth members in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific; and applying Commonwealth advocacy to raise and emphasise the importance of deepening and widening access to finance, particularly for the poorest and most vulnerable members of the Commonwealth and its citizenry. A recent illustration has been the joint Commonwealth/Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) submission to G20 members in the lead up to the G20 Toronto Summit in July this year,