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Due to insufficient income levels and market discrimination in
developing regions, there are still millions of people involuntarily excluded from the financial system, which creates potential loss of savings, investable funds, and accumulation of wealth. Financial inclusion helps to fill these gaps and provide households and firms greater access to resources needed for finance consumption and investment and thereby raise the level of economic activity. In addition, financial inclusion makes growth inclusive: access to finance can enable economic agents to take part in long-term participatory investment activities, facilitate efficient allocation of productive resources and thus reduce the cost of capital, cope with unexpected short-term shocks, significantly improve day-to-day management of finances, and reduce usually exploitative informal sources of credit