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Banking in the Comfort Zone
By providing a familiar environment for small transactions, agency banking can foster good financial habits.
By Scott Graham, Muyumbana Sililo, Anahit Tevosyan, FINCA International
FinDev Blog
Sweeter Prospects for Cocoa Farmers
Cocoa is one of the world’s most prized foods, but the smallholder farmers in Cote d’Ivoire who produce it live in extreme poverty. Formal land ownership can improve their financial outlook.
By Scott Graham & Anahit Tevosyan, Finca International
FinDev Blog
Financial Health as a Consumer Journey
The deep value of a financial health framework is to enable financial service providers and regulators to step into customers' shoes and design products and policies that accompany and support them on their pathway to financial well-being.
By Elisabeth Rhyne
FinDev Blog
How Do Digital Remittances Contribute to Women’s Financial Health?
Results from a UNCDF survey make clear the need for more gender-smart and migrant-centric remittance products.
By Uloma Ogba, Houle Cao, Julie Kamau, UNCDF
FinDev Blog
How Do Savings Contribute to Financial Health?
A meta-review leads to two mental shifts in approaches to savings research.
By Elisabeth Rhyne, Jayshree Venkatesan
FinDev Blog
Shifting Perspectives: From Financial Inclusion to Financial Health of Forcibly Displaced Persons (FDPs)
Three years since the Global Compact on Refugees, financial health remains elusive for most refugees. New research puts forth a financial health framework for measuring progress against the challenges refugees face.
By Linnea Kreibohm, Barri Shorey, Hans-Martin Zademach, Kim Wilson
FinDev Blog
Financial Health and Consumer Protection: Two Frameworks Converging
What do these distinct yet overlapping frameworks have in common and how do they affect each other?
By Eric Duflos, Juan Carlos Izaguirre, CGAP
FinDev Blog
Financial Health: The Opportunity for Financial Service Providers
If FSPs prioritize the financial health of their customers, they will not only increase customer loyalty, but they will build a more robust client base that will lead to longer term sustainability for their businesses.
By Payal Dalal, Mastercard
FinDev Blog
How Do We Measure Financial Health?
In the third post of our blog series on financial health, we explore how capturing the essence of this multi-dimensional concept takes us beyond standard measures of financial access or income.
By Paul Gubbins, Ben Mazzotta
FinDev Blog
Four Ways Financial Sector Policymakers Can Promote Financial Health
In the second post in our blog series on financial health, we explore what policymakers can do to ensure that the financial sector works to support people’s financial wellbeing.
By Elisabeth Rhyne