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Global Inclusive Finance Summit 2025
The summit brings together global and India’s leading knowledge communities to share insights on the major challenges in financial inclusion and strives to identify priorities for financial inclusion by connecting policy makers, global leaders and decision makers with scientifically backed insights and cutting-edge data.
Financing Her Health: How Maternity Wallets and Medical Loans Can Transform Maternal Care
Affordable health finance products boost resilience for urban slum dwellers in India.
Building Women’s Financial Resilience Through a Digital Savings-Led Banking Model
A pilot program in India helped low-income women entrepreneurs grow their savings and integrate into the formal financial system.
InvestHER: Pioneering Gender-Responsive Climate Finance
A new climate resilience bond aims to help support women smallholder farmers, but the road to issuance has proved challenging.
IFC and HDFC Capital Partner to Boost Green Affordable Housing Finance in India With $1B H-DREAM Fund
H-DREAM Fund is among the first private credit funds globally focused on increasing sustainable affordable and mid-income housing in urban India.
Microenterprise Mela-2: Variations in Employment & Productivity in India’s Diverse Microenterprises
This publication offers a mega-analysis of the contemporary microenterprise sector in India.
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.
Diverse Paths: Finance for Women’s Nano and Micro Enterprises
Women-led nano and micro enterprises face barriers like insufficient start-up capital and limited networking. This publication delves deeper the tailored solutions needed to support their growth based on in depth research in India, Kenya and Uganda.
Villgro Drives Financial Inclusion for Women Entrepreneurs in India
Villgro has announced that the innovative financing solutions powered by Villgro and its partner organizations have, to date, enabled 106 women micro entrepreneurs across India to take business loans.
Small Firms, Big Impact: Digitization, Financial Services, and Climate Resilience in Five Emerging Markets
This report presents findings on a survey of over 20,000 MSEs with over 4,000 interviews conducted, revealing opportunities for growth and greater efficiencies with use of digital products and services.