Building Radical Financial Confidence Through Inclusive Design
IDEO’s Last Mile Money program proposes new design paradigms for digital finance to center the experience of people living in poverty.
How to Design Client-Centric Financial Solutions for Women Smallholders
BRAC International Microfinance shares five lessons from their experience designing and testing tailor-made agri-credit solutions in Rwanda, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Coping Strategies of Financially Distressed Households
Which clients are most likely to draw down savings, borrow or sell off assets to deal with reduced income? This data can help MFIs find ways to make savings products easier to access, use and afford.
Saving to Build Resilience: At Odds With Saving for Future Goals?
New research takes a look at how formal savings accounts can help people manage financial risks as well as accumulate savings for the future.
How Can Small Scale Savings Be Offered Sustainably?
After six years of implementation, Scale2Save shares a number of lessons learned around the key drivers they identified for viable business models and the institutional factors that affect an FSP’s ability to offer low-balance savings products.
Guide to Inclusive Savings
In honor of World Savings Day, 31 October, this resource guide provides a curated list of recent work on inclusive savings solutions for low-income customers.
Food Insecurity Among Microfinance Clients
As food prices rise, data from the COVID-19 pandemic shows us which households will suffer the most, and what makes them vulnerable.
How Do Savings Contribute to Financial Health?
A meta-review leads to two mental shifts in approaches to savings research.
Meet Ivy the Innovator and Charlie the Copycat on Their Journey to Financial Inclusion
Understanding how different consumer behaviors affect adoption rates can help financial inclusion practitioners fine-tune their efforts.
Financial Health Goes Global
This post is the first in the FinDev Blog series on financial health, introducing the concept of financial health and discussing new efforts to apply the concept in low- and middle-income countries.