Limited access to financial services impedes economic development in impoverished communities, which has prompted policy makers, private institutions, and NGOs to develop strategies to address financial inclusion. Samuel Kirwan examines the various types of policy implementation and considers the efficacy of such economic interventions.

Samuel Kirwan is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. He is researching the sociology of everyday indebtedness.