In the framework of Financial Inclusion for the Arab Region Initiative (FIARI), the Arab Monetary Fund in collaboration with the World Bank and with support of the Financial Inclusion Task Force in the Arab Region has released a new publication on Regulatory Environment and Policy Interventions for Agricultural Finance in Arab Countries. It presents findings of a diagnostic of agricultural finance in Arab countries from July-October 2018.

In the framework of Financial Inclusion for the Arab Region Initiative (FIARI), the Arab Monetary Fund in collaboration with the World Bank and with support of the Financial Inclusion Task Force in the Arab Region has released a new publication on Regulatory Environment and Policy Interventions for Agricultural Finance in Arab Countries. It presents findings of a diagnostic of agricultural finance in Arab countries from July-October 2018.

The importance of financial inclusion to development is nowadays widely recognized in the international development community and by policymakers in developed and developing economies. Globally, there is still an estimated of 1.7 billion adults do not have access to a transaction account that can be used to receive payments and make deposits. Given this fact, the Arab region's financial services industry and policymakers have taken over the past five years significant steps to recognize and address challenges to meaningful financial inclusion.