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FinDev Blog

Using AI to Bring Social Capital Into Credit Decisions

Could the data representing a person’s social life be analyzed by AI to determine creditworthiness?

FinDev Blog

Boosting Women’s Climate Resilience: Three Areas to Support FSPs

This blog explores three key ways FSPs can be supported to offer inclusive financial solutions that boost low-income women’s climate adaptation and resilience—through better data use, stronger institutional capacity, and increased funding.

FinDev Blog

Why Financial Inclusion Is the Cornerstone of Climate Resilience

This blog explores how women are bearing the brunt of climate change crises, why financial access is essential for fostering women’s and girls’ resilience and prosperity and how for gender-responsive financial approaches to be most effective, they must be supplemented by non-financial interventions.

FinDev Blog

Magnifying the Power of Women’s Savings Groups

VisionFund has been exploring how formal loans to savings groups can help overcome capital constraints and improve members’ resilience.

FinDev Interview

How Do We Reach 80 Million Women and Increase Their Incomes by 30%?

Greta Bull of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation shares their latest thinking on achieving impact and building an inclusive credit ecosystem.

Paper

Designing Credit Products to Support Women’s Economic Activity: Synthesis of Recent Literature

This evidence synthesis examines a range of studies published to examine the impact of financial innovations that have addressed barriers women face in accessing and using credit for productive purposes. 

Paper

Bridging the Gap: Leveraging Village Savings and Loan Associations for Women’s Financial Inclusion in Yemen

This research was commissioned by CGAP and carried out by DeepRoot Consulting to understand efforts by Yemen's Social Fund for Development, to leverage savings groups as an entry point for formal providers to reach underserved, rural, and female segments in Yemen amidst conflict and a contracting microfinance sector.

Paper

Tackling Credit Fairness and Missed Business Opportunities With Reject Inference

 “Reject inference” techniques help financial institutions to increase their credit portfolio profitability by improving the accuracy of their approval mechanisms, with implications for offering credit to women who would otherwise be unable to access it. 

Paper

Women and Equitable Growth in a Resource-Constrained World

This paper addresses the need to reform the international development finance architecture in ways that expand access to affordable credit for women entrepreneurs in the Global South, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.

Slide Deck

Understanding Users’ Experience With Digital Lending Applications in India

This slide deck shares the results of a survey conducted by MSC and FACE to analyze user knowledge and behavior regarding digital lending applications (DLAs) and digital loans.