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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.
Connecting the Remittance Ecosystem in the Northern Triangle
This white paper examines the barriers and opportunities to boosting digital remittances in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Developing an Impact Monitoring System for Sida’s Guarantee Instrument
This publication shares key learnings from case studies from Guatemala and Bosnia and Herzegovina and illustrates their contribution to co-designing an impact monitoring system for Sweden’s guarantee instrument.
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).
Assessing the State of Youth Financial Inclusion in Developing Contexts
This guide draws primarily from the lessons learned during the realization of a series of assessments on the state of youth financial inclusion in Uganda, Kenya, and Guatemala in 2019 and 2020.
Promoting Access to Agricultural Finance for Youth in Developing Countries
This publication underlines the trends, core challenges, opportunities, innovative solutions and initiatives associated with agricultural financing for youth.
Making Climate Risk Microinsurance Work
This case study captures a Guatemalan insurance company's journey of offering climate risk microinsurance, including details on the delivery model employed, financial performance, and key learnings.
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.
Fintech Potential for Remittance Transfers: A Central America Perspective
This paper analyzes the potential for fintech to facilitate cheaper and more efficient remittances, and to enhance financial inclusion in Central America.