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Understanding Customers in Environments of Severe Climate-Related Weather Events
This demand side study in Nigeria and Bangladesh aims to provide firsthand information about how vulnerable people build and lose resilience, as well as a close view of how they gather and spend funds to cope with a climate crisis.
What Win-Win Lost: Rethinking Microfinance Subsidy in the Past and Designing for the Future
This working paper calls for reclaiming the power and value of subsidy to accomplish policy goals in order for the future of social investment in microfinance to be more effective.
Addressing Financial and Digital Literacy Challenges for Inclusive Finance
This paper investigates strategies of European microfinance institutions and inclusive fintech organizations to address financial and digital illiteracy among vulnerable customers.
Digital Cash Transfers for Emergency Response: Lessons From Cameroon
This research shares findings from an evaluation in 2021 documenting lessons learned from digital government-to-people (G2P) payments to eighty thousand beneficiaries, mostly women, in Cameroon.
Empowering Indonesia’s Artisans: Financial Inclusion Insights
This study takes a comprehensive look at the relationship between financial inclusion and economic empowerment through contextual factors such as social norms, income, and financial capability among women artisans in Indonesia.
Impact Assessment of Financial Service Providers: Market Conduct Risk-Based Supervision Guideline Note
This guideline note is meant to assist policymakers in developing impact assessment frameworks, under the MC-RBS umbrella and the overarching goals of financial consumer protection policy.
Increasing Access to Formal Financial Services
This learning brief describes three models that USAID-funded Feed the Future Rural Resilience Activity utilized to provide formal financial services, in particular credit and savings, to previously excluded populations in Northeast Nigeria.
Make Recourse Clear, Quick and Responsive
This resource is meant for Better Than Cash Alliance members and partners aiming to fortify recourse mechanisms through policy evolution.
The Role Regulators Play in Closing the Financial Inclusion Gender Gap: A Case Study of the Dominican Republic
This case study offers an overview of the current state of women’s financial inclusion in the Dominican Republic.
What Women Say About Microfinance
This report offers an in-depth look at the impact of microfinance and financial services on women's financial resilience, access to finance, and on their businesses and households.