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Zeroing in on the True Bottleneck: What Is Holding Digital Financial Inclusion Back?
The Decision Tree framework provides a tool to help identify the constraints affecting usage of digital financial services in a given country. In this FinDev Interview, Liliana Rojas-Suarez of the Center for Global Development (CGD) shares how it works and why they are now launching an online course on how to use it.
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Why Biodiversity Matters for Financial Inclusion
In this FinDev interview, Nausica Fiorelli, Mariella Llontop and Chiara Pescatori talk about how microfinance institutions and investors can manage biodiversity-related risks and turn them into investment opportunities.
Financial Inclusion, Reframed: What the Well-Being Literature Can Teach Us
While financial well-being is increasingly treated as the end goal of financial inclusion, we’re still not fully connecting the two concepts. This proposed framework for financial well-being addresses people’s material, psychological and social needs.
Editor's Picks
In this webinar, we heard from key stakeholders who discussed how CGAP’s new interactive platform can help you better understand and apply financial inclusion evidence.
This publication explores the experiences of women entrepreneurs in low and middle income countries in 2024.
A recent pilot used machine learning and digital tools to provide personalized financial recommendations for rural users, with promising results.
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.
2024 Impact Report BBVAMF
Digital Finance Needs Demystifying for Microenterprise Facilitation
This paper sets out the manner in which people are mystified by digital financial services (DFS) and the type and intensity of effort needed to improve understanding.
India’s Invisible Engines: Understanding and Supporting Women-led Nano and Microenterprises
Based on CGAP’s research across six Indian states, this report introduces a segmentation framework that reflects the diversity of WNMEs across eight key dimensions such as enterprise size, entrepreneurial mindset, capabilities, household responsibilities, business sophistication, network access, sector, and geographic location.
FinDev Editor's Collections
The FinDev Editor's Collections provide a selection of resources carefully curated by our experienced editors to provide financial inclusion professionals with a guide to the most relevant and up-to-date insights and analysis on key topics and emerging issues.
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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.
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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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