Financial Inclusion and Simplified Regulation can improve GDP: US Pakistan Experts

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MG News | October 17, 2018 at 05:14 PM GMT+05:00

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October 17, 2018: Pakistan’s GDP would jump two percent if all Pakistanis entered the formal banking system, and another two percent with simplified trade regulations, Pakistani and U.S. experts agreed on Tuesday 16th October. 

The experts, gathered from both the private and non-profit sectors and the Pakistani government, participated in a U.S. Government-sponsored program to broaden financial inclusion for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). 

Facilitated by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Commercial Law Development Program, the day-long discussion focused on ways new technologies can include businesses and households currently without access to the banking system. 

There are currently around 100 million Pakistanis who do not participate in the formal banking sector, depriving them of much needed capital to grow their businesses.

In his keynote address, Mr. Ghulam Muhammad Abbasi of the State Bank of Pakistan outlined the various ways the national bank can aid SMEs. 

The workshop also featured three lively panel discussions on expanding cross border trade, taxation, and e-commerce privacy. 

This program continues the U.S. Mission Pakistan’s assistance in broadening financial inclusion to Pakistani SMEs. The U.S. Consulate in Karachi will hold a roundtable discussion on these same issues in Karachi on October 18.

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