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Case Study

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.

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

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).

Paper

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.

Case Study

GBA Case Study: NatWest

The fifth in the GBA's Case Study series on best practice banks features Women in Business champion NatWest, part of the Royal Bank of Scotland. 

Paper

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
Paper

Financial Inclusion: Improving the Financial Health of the Nation

Examining the level of financial inclusion in the United Kingdom
Case Study

Togo: Postal Financial Inclusion through Mobile Agencies

Case study analyzing the success factors and challenges of the Togolese Post's mobile initiative
Paper

Public Sector - Operated Price Comparison Websites: Case Studies and Good Practices

Providing guidance on operating price comparison websites
Paper

Helping or Hurting: What Role for Microfinance in the Fight Against Poverty?

How should the U.K. government support the microfinance sector?