Some of them are providing quality services without imposing severe financial burden  2  BIS Review 41/2005  on the poor. Private-public partnership should be strengthened to scale up these activities whereby the government provides the facilities and finances while the private and not-for-profit sector delivers the services to the poor.
Financial system is one of the most potent instruments for creating wealth and distributing benefits of growth to the poor. As financial sector has been restructured and competition introduced, there is a broadening of access for their products and services.