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Putting Agents to Use: Insights From a Multicountry Research on Customer’s Usage of CICO Agents

This report shares strategies for enhancing customer retention among cash-in and cash-out (CICO) agents.

Slide Deck

Understanding Customers in Environments of Severe Climate-Related Weather Events

This demand side study in Nigeria and Bangladesh aims to provide firsthand information about how vulnerable people build and lose resilience, as well as a close view of how they gather and spend funds to cope with a climate crisis.

Paper

Building Value in Microfinance Through Digitization: A Role for Funders

Funders play a crucial role in ensuring that microfinance institutions (MFIs) continue to serve the most excluded and underserved customers in the future. This note highlights the importance of funders in supporting the digital transformation of MFIs.

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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.

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Consumer Protection for Financial Inclusion in Low and Middle Income Countries

Bridging regulator and academic perspectives

Case Study

Financial Education for the MSMEs: Identifying MSME Educational Needs

Demand-side case studies on educational programs for both supply and demand-side from Zambia, Jordan and Bangladesh

Paper

Preserving Liquidity: Policymaker Responses to COVID-19 and the Impact on Low-Income Customers

Initial lessons learned and suggestions for dealing with the current and future crises
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Coping With COVID-19

A multi-country perspective from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Kenya, and Uganda
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Executive Summary – CGAP National Surveys of Smallholder Households

Key data from six surveys compiled in a series of easy-to-reference charts and tables
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Basic Regulatory Enablers for Digital Financial Services

Guiding policy makers to create an enabling environment for digital financial services