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When you speak of the future of microfinance, we hope a future of progress in innovation. The progress that can take one of two forms. Horizontal or extensive progress means copying things that work from lower to higher. Horizontal progress is easy to imagine because we already know what it looks like. Vertical or intensive progress means doing new things, that is; going from nothing to something (0 to 1). Vertical progress is harder to imagine because it requires doing something nobody else has ever done.

When we think of the future, we hope a future of progress. The progress that can take one of two forms. Horizontal or extensive progress means copying things that work from lower to higher. Horizontal progress is easy to imagine because we already know what it looks like. Vertical or intensive progress means doing new things, that is; going from nothing to something (0 to 1).

Financial inclusion is where individuals and businesses have access to useful and affordable financial products and services that meet their needs that are delivered responsibly and sustainably. Financial inclusion is defined as the availability and equality of opportunities to access financial services.

The year 2020 has been a year of many unexpected events that affected the global economy at its large. The outbreak of the pandemic (Covid-19), brought about the global economic crisis through preventing the social interactions of people physically as the means of preventing the quick spread of the disease.