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WhatsApp Helps Small Businesses Get Back on Their Feet After the Pandemic
Business support organizations in Brazil and Peru share how they used this digital tool to build entrepreneur communities and capacity.
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Agent Gender Matters
While there is growing evidence of a positive relationship between cash-in cash-out (CICO) network quality and gender inclusiveness, there is still an ongoing debate about whether the gender of the agent matters for business performance and for women’s financial inclusion.
From Humanitarian Assistance to Economic Resilience in Yemen
CARE shares results and lessons from adapting their Village Savings & Loan Association (VSLA) model to crisis settings to help extend access to financial services to some of the most underserved communities in the world.
A Guide to Global Findex 2021: What You Need to Know
This FinDev guide highlights some of the most recent analytical pieces on the newly released Global Findex database 2021 and will continue to be updated as new publications become available.
A new Microfinance Index captures client-level outcomes across five dimensions of impact, providing us with key insights that help us understand how client outcomes vary with different types of microfinance services.
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Latest news, publications, blogs, events and other resources on coronavirus and financial inclusion
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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.
Banking-As-a-Service: How it Can Catalyze Financial Inclusion
In addition to an analysis of the Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) model, this reading deck also contains four case studies of BaaS providers in Europe, US and Mexico.
Banking in Layers: Five Cases to Illustrate How the Market Structure for Financial Services is Evolving
Low-Income Financial Services Market Sizing and Fintech Assessment: Kenya Country Report
This slide deck presents the findings of research estimating the size of the medium and small enterprise and low-income credit markets in Kenya and to assess the potential of fintech firms to meet the needs of those markets.
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Dive into the latest research and insights on over 30 topics related to financial inclusion and microfinance. FinDev Gateway hosts over 8,000 publications, blog posts, events and announcements curated by our editors and sent in by various organizations from across the globe.
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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.
Lifting the Fog: ATLAS Data for Financial Inclusion
This webinar introduces ATLAS, a new data platform centralizing data on financial and social performance to make financial inclusion accountable.
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