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Making Financial Services Accessible to Low-Income Populations Through Financial Education and Social Empowerment

This study illustrates how digitalization can improve financial inclusion, customer experience, and operational efficiency for low-income populations and financial institutions.

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Indigenous Financial Service Research in Kenya, Ghana, and Togo

MSC conducted qualitative research in Kenya, Ghana and Togo and found that Indigenous Financial Services (IFS), such as rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), informal moneylenders and burial societies play a critical role in driving access to finance for micro and small enterprises (MSEs).

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How Providers Can Build Products That Improve Financial Health: Examples From Mexico and Chile

This paper shares the key challenges, learnings, and overall results from five case studies in Chile and Mexico, uncovering best practices on how to design for and influence financial health.

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Microfinance Clients Facing the COVID-19 Crisis: From Findings to Action for MFIs

This publication presents the main results of MFI client surveys in seven countries (Bhutan, Myanmar, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Cape Verde and El Salvador), as well as the concrete measures taken by MFIs to meet the needs expressed by their clients.

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Assessment of the Effects and Behavioural Changes of Financial and Non-Financial Services on Youth

Financial diaries study of 280 YouthStart participants in Togo and Ethiopia
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Catalyzing Inclusive Financial Systems: Chile’s Commitment to Women’s Data

Valuable lessons on collecting and using sex-disaggregated data in the financial sector
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Promoting Social Inclusion of the Extreme Poor at Scale: Evidence from Developing Countries

Alleviating extreme poverty through social inclusion programs
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Togo: Postal Financial Inclusion through Mobile Agencies

Case study analyzing the success factors and challenges of the Togolese Post's mobile initiative
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2010 WAEMU Microfinance Analysis & Benchmarking Report

Assessing performance of the microfinance sector in WAEMU
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Compare: Practices & Results of a Selection of Solar Power/Microfinance Projects in West Africa

Promoting development in poor communities by self-sufficient and sustaining activities