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Guide / Toolkit

Open Finance Self-Assessment Tool and Development Roadmap

This technical guide introduces the open finance self-assessment tool and development roadmap. It provides practical tools for policymakers to use to decide whether to implement an open finance regime to advance financial inclusion.

Paper

A COVID Microfinance Liquidity Tour of Asia

Cross country data and analysis on different types of microfinance service providers

Paper

COVID-19 and Remittance Flows in Nepal: Potential Turning Point for Development

Can this unprecedented crisis push Nepal to reform and absorb its human capital?

Paper

A COVID Perspective on Nepal Microfinance

Advisory Note on the liquidity of MFIs in Nepal
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Lessons from Farming Households: Agricultural Decision Making and Shifting Social Norms for Women’s Economic Empowerment

What are the operational implications for encouraging greater engagement of women in agriculture and finance?
Paper

Improving Operational Efficiency of MFIs Through Tablet Banking

A guide for MFIs on how they can adopt digitization
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Microfinance for Disaster Recovery: Lessons From the 2015 Nepal Earthquake

What role can microfinance institutions play in helping the poor recover from disasters?
Slide Deck

Leveraging Technology for Meaningful Financial Inclusion in Asia

What opportunities does fintech present for potential providers and customers?
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What Matters for Households' Recovery Trajectories Following the Gorkha Earthquake

Analyzing the importance of formal lending in long-term disaster recovery