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The Gates Foundation's "Financial Services for the Poor" strategy "aims to expand the availability of affordable and reliable financial services that serve the needs of all, including the poorest." This means supporting what it believes are the most catalytic approaches to financial inclusion, i.e. "helping to drive the development of digital payment systems that can help spread use of digital financial services quickly, advancing gender equality to ensure women share in the benefits of financial inclusion, and supporting the development of national and regional strategies that accelerate progress for the poor and provide exemplar models."