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.

A meta-review leads to two mental shifts in approaches to savings research.

In the first post of the FinDev Blog Series on Climate Change and Financial Inclusion, we explore insights from Rwandan smallholder farmers on building climate resilience through microfinance.

LAPO Microfinance Bank learned five important lessons from their experience using a human-centered design process to revamp their child savings account product.

Understanding how different consumer behaviors affect adoption rates can help financial inclusion practitioners fine-tune their efforts.

Differences in product awareness show that we need to look deeper at sub-segments among women if we want to achieve equality of financial access.  

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.

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.

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.

There is an urgent need in India and globally to design policies to prevent over-indebtedness. But first, it must be measured. A new framework for monitoring credit markets proposes how.