Call for Chapters: The Role of Financial Inclusion for Reaching Sustainable Development Goals

Proponents have developed research on financial inclusion, its determinants, and its implications. Both have published articles related to financial inclusion and financial stability; financial inclusion, financial literacy, and credit risk; financial inclusion and monetary policy; financial inclusion, financial innovation, and economic growth; financial inclusion and financial regulation; innovation, financial inclusion, and corruption; financial inclusion and poverty.

Financial inclusion is an extension of financial development and is currently widely used as public policy to support inclusive economic growth and support sustainable development. In this way, understanding the challenges and implications of financial inclusion is crucial for policymakers, financial institutions, researchers, and finance students.

The book aims to present the main trends related to research on financial inclusion, the challenges in different countries and economies, and their implications for financial institutions, society, and the economy in general. This book intends to present a compilation of the state of the art and identify the new trends and theoretical and empirical studies on the challenges and impacts of financial inclusion.

The book will be organized by chapters from different authors. We hope to answer crucial questions about the different and main determinants of financial inclusion, implications for economic agents, financial institutions, and the economy in general in various contexts. To this end, we intend to collect various contributions in the form of competing and complementary chapters and to ensure a degree of quality that justifies their publication, through the mobilization of researchers worldwide who are researching the areas of interest in the context of financial inclusion.

The study on financial inclusion arouses the interest of policymakers, financial institutions, and society in general, and understanding the challenges and implications of financial inclusion is crucial for the prescription of public policies that converge on the well-being of society and sustainable development. Theoretical and empirical studies that promote the understanding of the areas mentioned below and any other area related to the theme, even if not explicitly indicated, will be considered.

We want the book to be a reference on the economic, social and political challenges in the implementation of financial inclusion programmes, as well as to describe the importance and main advantages in the implementation of financial inclusion programmes for financial institutions, households and the economy in general. It also wants to provide a comparative view of the main challenges to financial inclusion in different financial systems and economies.

The different economic contexts and situations such as the recent Covid-19 pandemic and the current crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, which may affect each economy differently or similarly, justify the comparison of the challenges and implications of financial inclusion in an international context. In this way, the book can have an impact on academia, since the theme of financial inclusion is of increasing importance and the book can show the trends of research and identification of future investigations, being aligned with sustainable development goals. We hope to add theoretical and empirical investigations that allow us to sustain public policies to expand financial inclusion.

Full chapters are expected to be submitted by November 1, 2023, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, The Role of Financial Inclusion for Reaching Sustainable Development Goals. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery^® online submission manager.

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2024.

November 1, 2023: Full Chapter Submission
December 5, 2023: Final Chapter Submission