Working Paper #1: The Central Bank of the Future

The goal of this paper is to provide an early research note, beginning to build a foundation for a series of forthcoming Central Bank of the Future (CBOTF) papers, so that readers embark on this journey with a basic understanding of the evolution of Central Bank involvement in financial inclusion. This paper acknowledges several contributions to the research on Central Bank involvement in financial inclusion but is not intended to be an exhaustive review of current work. Rather, this paper seeks to provide research summaries and a few case studies to provide a high-level overview of the nexus between Central Banks and financial inclusion.