Teaching Elephants to Tango: Working with Post Banks To Realise Their Full Potential

The publication explores ways by which post banks' network can support the government and other institutions in making salary and pension payments to people living in remote areas who are otherwise un-served by commercial banks. The document highlights the comparative advantage of post banks' networks over shops, garages and bars which are used as E/M-Banking agents and recommends that in the future commercial banks can foray into microfinance and even remittance services.