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Impact Pathfinder: How Does Financial Inclusion Contribute to Development?

Join this webinar to hear key stakeholders discuss how CGAP’s new interactive platform helps you better understand and apply financial inclusion evidence.

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Women's Financial Inclusion: A Guide to Knowledge Resources IWD 2025

To mark International Women's Day 2025, this guide shares the latest blogs and publications on financial services that work for women.

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Women Entrepreneurs Are Confident and Capable - So Why Are Systems Holding Them Back?

New research from CARE shows that women entrepreneurs set clear business goals and believe they can achieve them, but they lack credit. Women-centered design can help break systemic barriers to offer more and better credit options for all.


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Artificial intelligence is a transformative force with the potential to make financial services more efficient, inclusive and responsive to client needs. However, the future of AI in financial inclusion relies on responsible practices to ensure an ethical and impactful use of this evolving technology.

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The report examines key intersections, challenges and opportunities facing climate-vulnerable communities, as well as the innovators and funders working to address their needs.

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Reflecting on the highlights of 2024, we have compiled a list of notable contributions from the past year which showed thought leadership, explored innovative ideas and approaches, offered practical guidance, amplified underrepresented voices and engaged with the most pressing issues for the financial inclusion sector. 

Latest Publications

FinDev Gateway hosts publications from over 2,000 organizations. Explore the largest collection of resources on microfinance and financial inclusion including over 8,000 papers, case studies, toolkits and more.

Paper / CGAP

How to Measure Women’s Economic Empowerment in Financial Inclusion: A Menu of Indicators

This paper introduces a menu of 19 indicators to measure Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE) through increased financial inclusion.

Paper / Cherie Blair Foundation for Women / Intuit

Empowered or Undermined? Women Entrepreneurs & the Digital Economy

2024 survey of women entrepreneurs in low & middle income countries
Paper / Inter-American Development Bank

Competition and Market Power in the Latin American Banking Sector

This paper gathers banks' balance sheet monthly regulatory information for seven Latin American countries, estimates lending markups and deposits markdowns in each country over time and studies how they relate with banks' profitability, the cost of credit, credit risk and credit supply.

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Keep up with the global microfinance and financial inclusion community. Check out the latest news from across the sector, and an extensive calendar of events and trainings hosted by a wide range of organizations.

FinDev Webinars

FinDev Webinars enable financial inclusion practitioners to share lessons and attend online presentations and discussions delivered by the world’s leading financial inclusion experts.

Reassessing Microfinance as a Development Tool

Is it time to rethink our approach to microfinance? In this webinar, our panelists explored this critical question and discussed what needs to change for microfinance to be effectively leveraged as a development tool.

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