In order to speed-up the process of financial inclusion, the State Bank of Pakistan has developed an ambitious plan to scale up outreach of microfinance services to 3.0 million users by the end of 2010, scale number of small agriculture borrowers to 2.0 million and SME borrowers 300,000 by 2010.
The Managing Director of the IMF described the Mexican economic problems of 1994/95 as “the first crisis of the 21st century”, with the implication that this was something new and, more ominously, perhaps there would be more of them.