On the losing end are areas that lack connections to the container-handling network and the internet. This applies to areas that lack crucial infrastructure, be it reliable electricity and roads, or the rule of law. In the Western world, job security has diminished, not just for blue-collar workers. These days, services in ICT and other high-tech sectors are offshored to low-income countries.
The top management of the Bank travelled to remote villages across the country to listen to ordinary people, see and understand how grassroot institutions – self-help women’s groups, micro-finance institution, non-government organizations, rural cooperatives, rural branches of regional and mainstream commercial banks – operate, and to learn of the challenges and opportunities for financial inclusion.