This collaborative fintech landscape study aims to understand the impact of the pandemic and resilience of the fintech ecosystem across Bangladesh.

In order to understand how low and moderate income people were doing during the COVID-19 pandemic, BRAC Microfinance conducted financial diaries research with 273 households from different earning categories.

Based on a literature review and case studies of various urban cash transfer schemes in response to the COVID-19 crisis, this paper explores the successes and challenges of implementing cash transfers in urban settings in response to a large, covariate shock.

This brief presents emerging evidence from studies in diverse African contexts on how COVID-19 has affected savings groups and how these groups have helped mitigate the pandemic’s negative consequences in sub-Saharan Africa.

This report presents the impact of the pandemic on the operations, revenue, and coping strategies of fintechs in Bangladesh.

Findings based on a longitudinal survey in Colombia, India, Indonesia, and Nigeria

A detailed country-level view of the impact of the pandemic on MSMEs and their coping strategies

Recommendations to help build resilience to the pandemic

How do inexperienced consumers learn to use a new financial technology? 

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of low and middle-income people toward COVID-19, and its impact on their life