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Competition for Financial Inclusion: A Conceptual Framework
Enhancing Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Green Finance Through Proportionate Sustainable Finance Standards
This guideline note addresses the challenge developing countries face in aligning with evolving global sustainable finance standards while safeguarding financial inclusion and inclusive green finance.
The Global Findex 2025
This edition of Toronto Centre podcast introduces the Global Findex Digital Connectivity Tracker, which illustrates how mobile phones and internet access are advancing financial inclusion.
A Proportionate Regulatory Framework for Savings Groups
Drawing on country experiences from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and India, the study examines the growing interest in regulating savings groups to enhance trust, protect members’ savings, improve governance, enable linkages with formal financial institutions, and strengthen data collection.
Building Resilience Through Inclusive Insurance: Insights From the European Microfinance Award 2025
This publication is the culmination of a year’s work exploring how insurance can help low-income and vulnerable people manage risk, recover from shocks, and build long-term resilience.
Building Rural Women’s Climate Resilience: Seven Business Drivers Delivering Commercial Value
As climate pressures rise, strengthening rural women’s resilience is critical for their livelihoods and for the long-term viability of the rural businesses that serve them. This paper identifies seven practical business drivers that simultaneously strengthen rural women’s climate resilience and business performance.
Exploring the Nature and Prevalence of Financial Abuse Among Microfinance Customers in Benin
Cerise+SPTF and Grameen Foundation collaborated on research to test a survey instrument designed to measure the nature and prevalence of financial abuse.
Finance, Climate and Gender: Empowering Women Agents of Change
This report highlights how women’s financial exclusion and climate vulnerability are deeply interconnected, and showcases solutions, rooted in women-centered financial services, that strengthen women’s resilience to climate shocks.
From Safety Net to Springboard
This paper explores how integrating inclusive finance with social protection can drive climate action and build resilience.
How Has the Reduction in International Aid Impacted Financial Service Providers?
This field aims to assess the impact on the financial inclusion sector of reduced international aid, following the decrease in contributions from the United States and other countries to development programs worldwide.