Access to Agency: Empowering Women Through Digital Inclusion
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.
Understanding the Impacts of Savings Groups on Women’s Economic Activity: Synthesis of Recent Literature
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) 2025 Call for Research Proposals Is Now Open!
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.
Consumer Protection Research Initiative: Gender & Consumer Protection Learning Agenda
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.
Transaction Cost Index: A Toolkit for Measuring the Real Costs of Digital Financial Services
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.
How Do Instant Interoperable Payment Systems Transform Modern Economies?
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.
Designing Cash Transfer and Graduation Programs to Support Women’s Economic Activity: Synthesis of Recent Literature
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.
Designing Credit Products to Support Women’s Economic Activity: Synthesis of Recent Literature
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.
IPA Hosts UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate Queen Máxima to Meet With Mobile Money Users in Tanzania
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.
Inclusive Instant Payment Systems: An Evidence Based Approach From Design to Impact
This white paper summarizes how interoperable payment systems work and discusses the status of interoperability in emerging markets.