This white paper examines the perceptions, expectations and lived experiences of women-led small and micro businesses regarding privacy and security in digital financial services. 

This policy brief highlights key bottlenecks in agricultural value chains and showcases how digital farmer registries can address them. 

This report explores how digital financial services (DFS) are reshaping access to finance in low- and middle-income countries, particularly for underserved individuals and nano, micro, and small enterprises.

This study provides a practical guide for digital financial service providers in low- and middle-income countries who are interested in launching their own  digital and financial literacy programs.

The Mobile Gender Gap Report shares the latest figures on women’s access to and use of mobile in LMICs, the barriers they face and how this compares to men.

The industry took 18 years to achieve one billion registered accounts and 250 million active users from 2001, but doubled in size in the following five years. 

This report finds that transaction volumes and values for mobile money accounts experienced robust double-digit growth in 2024.

These advancements are expected to create over 1 million new jobs and generate an additional ETB 57 billion in tax revenues by 2028.

This study identifies further opportunities and quantifies the economic value of adopting digital technologies across Ethiopia’s economy. It determines how these opportunities can be unlocked through policy reforms, particularly focusing on the key role that the mobile telecommunications sector and mobile money services plays in supporting the process of digitalization.

The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2024 explores the latest data on the mobile gender gap, the key barriers preventing women’s equal access to and use of mobile, and what is needed to close the mobile internet gender gap. It also highlights the socio-economic benefits of addressing these barriers for the mobile industry, the economy and society more broadly, and women themselves.