This conference convenes researchers, implementers, and policymakers to explore how digital tools—particularly digital financial services (DFS)—can expand or constrain women’s agency and economic empowerment across low- and middle-income countries.

This evidence review synthesizes rigorous evidence on the impacts of savings groups on women's financial inclusion and economic activity in developing economies.

IPA’s Consumer Protection Research Initiative (CPRI) accepts proposals for large grants that fund rigorous impact evaluations, as well as smaller grants that can fund pilots, add-ons to existing studies, low-cost evaluations such as lab-based experiments, or evaluations relying primarily on administrative data.

This learning agenda aims to outline the existing evidence on consumer protection risks for women, assess potential solutions, and identify priority gaps in the literature.

The Transaction Cost Index's Toolkit for Measuring the Real Costs of Digital Financial Services provides a practical framework for systematically measuring the financial and non-financial costs that consumers face when using DFS, including official fees, informal agent charges, and service quality factors.

This research brief synthesizes recent academic findings on the effect of Instant interoperable payment systems on enhancing financial inclusion, spurring economic growth, and fostering innovation in the financial sector.

This review summarizes the impact of such interventions as graduation programs and cash transfers, as well as variations in design and delivery, on economic, and non-economic outcomes among female recipients.

This evidence synthesis examines a range of studies published to examine the impact of financial innovations that have addressed barriers women face in accessing and using credit for productive purposes. 

In her role as UNSGSA, Queen Máxima spoke with entrepreneurs and mobile money agents at the market to better understand the impacts of mobile money on the growth of their businesses.

This white paper summarizes how interoperable payment systems work and discusses the status of interoperability in emerging markets.