On April 19, 2018, the third Global Findex Database was released by the World Bank at the Bank's Spring Meeting. According to Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), this dataset is "the financial inclusion community's best demand-side measure of financial inclusion globally." Queen Maxima of

Financial inclusion can be simply defined as the universal access to and use of affordable, quality financial services, provided responsibly. The goal of financial inclusion is to bring the financially-excluded under the umbrella of formal financial services, so as to protect and enhance welfare. F

Over the last 12 years, the Bangladesh economy has sustained an average GDP (gross domestic product) growth of around 6.0 per cent per year, accompanied by significant shifts in the sectoral outputs, away from agriculture to industry and services, towards an increasing contribution of the privat