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Paper

Empowering Small Giants: Inclusive Embedded Finance for Micro-Retailers

This report outlines various business models that incorporate last-mile retailers into digital ordering platforms, offering them convenience, transparency, and a wide range of products.

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

Inclusive Digital Banking: Emerging Markets Case Studies

What makes digital banking inclusive? This Working Paper takes a detailed look at how three digital banks in India, South Africa and the Philippines are innovating and driving financial inclusion.

Case Study

A Client Needs-Centred Approach to Financial Inclusion Measurement

Understanding how and why customers use different types of financial services
Case Study

A Client Needs-Centered Approach to Financial Inclusion Measurement

Innovative financial inclusion data framework focused on customers financial needs
Case Study

Proportionality in Practice: Distribution

Lessons from supervisors on implementing proportionate regulation on access to insurance
Paper

Supervision of Banks and Nonbanks Operating through Agents: Practice in Nine Countries and Insights for Supervisors

Review of supervisory practices in countries with large and diverse agent networks
Paper

Where Credit is Due

Results from seven randomized evaluations of the impact of microcredit
Paper

Identifying Constraints to Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP and Inequality: A Structural Framework for Policy

Evaluating the impact of financial inclusion constraints on GDP, inequality, and welfare
Paper

Achieving Scale and Efficiency in Microinsurance Through Retail and Banking Correspondents

Exploring alternative distribution channels to extend the reach of insurance