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Economic Growth
The importance of retail payment systems to economies
Retail payment systems are important to the functioning of an economy. Inefficiencies can have significant negative effects throughout the economy.
Massimo Cirasino joined the World Bank in July 1998 and is is Manager of the Financial Infrastructure & Remittances Service Line and Head of the Payment Systems Development Group of the World Bank Group's Finance and Markets Global Practice.