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Kenya’s engagement with the standard setting bodies and the implications for financial inclusion A contribution from the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) network of developing country policymakers

Kenya's engagement with the standard setting bodies and the implications for financial inclusion

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The Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) is the main implementing organization for the G20 Financial Inclusion Action Plan. The absence of clear guidance on how to implement international principles to the particular financial inclusion challenges faced by Kenya has meant that the country’s regulators have tended to attach greater value to guidance from regional bodies such as ESAAMLG and the EAC. This study is published by the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) in its capacity as implementing partner of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI).

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Kenya’s engagement with the standard setting

bodies and the implications

for financial inclusion

A contribution from the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) network of developing country policymakers

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