Talk:Financial deepening
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Too technical; seems to have been cut and pasted from elsewhere; and Word Salad
editI recommend this article be scrapped. There are much better articles, found by a simple search of this term without help from AI on DuckDuckGo, which explain the term well. This article in Wikipedia is a frustration and time waster. Sorry, just being honest.
TOO TECHNICAL I came looking for an explanation of this term, financial deepening, but encounter barriers to understanding the whole article. I get a glimmer of the meaning in the first two sentences. The rest of this article is hard to comprehend after a little while because it is so technical - that is, it’s using technical language without explaining the meanings of terms. I’m pretty sure one goal of Wikipedia is to make things comprehensible to lay readers.
I start to feel uneasy when I reach “incumbents”, but I get what is meant. But then I run aground on "internal resource generation” - does this mean the profit that the incumbents make, which can be used for further investment, or using assets as collateral for borrowing, or something else? If so, then say so. The next barrier for me is "informal intermediation” and I am totally clueless on that term.
Four techniques come to mind as to making this article comprehensible. The simplest may be to locate explanations of technical terms elsewhere and link them to the terms in the article. Secondly, they could be explained when introduced in the article. Thirdly, they could be replaced by phrases that are comprehensible to lay readers. Finally, examples can be provided to illustrate use of these terms.
PASTED FROM ELSEWHERE This sentence is clearly pasted from some report somewhere: "Financial deepening and macro-stability has been identified as a priority area in the years ahead for the Fund, as reflected in its Financial Surveillance Strategy paper.” What is “the Fund”? What is the “Financial Surveillance Strategy paper”?
WORD SALAD The paragraph after the quote above is unreadable word salad. ~2026-21973-85 (talk) 14:32, 9 April 2026 (UTC)