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Women & Money: Insights and a Path to Close the Gender Gap
This paper presents research findings on the key challenges women face in accessing digital financial services and the design opportunities for the financial sector, policymakers and regulators, the philanthropic sector, NGOs, and designers everywhere.
Business Her Own Way: Creating Livelihoods Through Informal Online Commerce
This Focus Note outlines the characteristics of informal online commerce (IOC), maps the personas of the women who engage in it, and provides guidance to funders looking to support women to generate livelihoods through IOC.
Pakistan Housing Finance: Is There a Business Case for Financial Institutions?
This study highlights the need for financial institutions to expand into housing finance across different income segments—particularly low and middle income households—and regions.
Understanding Micro- and Small-Growth Entrepreneurs in Vietnam, Pakistan and Peru
This report provides an overview of "the current state of strivers" across these countries with an aim to understand the emerging unmet needs through market assessments.
Changing Diaspora
Performance review of microfinance banks in Pakistan from 2017 to June 2020
NBFCs in Pakistan: Regulatory Landscape and Bottlenecks
This study offers an in-depth analysis of the domestic non banking finance company segment involved in lending services.
A COVID Microfinance Liquidity Tour of Asia
Cross country data and analysis on different types of microfinance service providers
Microfinance and COVID-19: Principles for Regulatory Response
Five guiding principles for regulators mitigating the impacts of COVID-19
The Liquidity Challenge for Pakistan’s Microfinance Banks
M-CRIL Advisory Note on the liquidity of microfinance banks in Pakistan