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Diving Into Data on Smallholder Families

Until now, reliable data on the financial lives of smallholder families has been scarce. Three new tools from CGAP, Insight2Impact, MIX and One Acre Fund shed light on this massive untapped market for financial services.
FinDev Blog

New Global Findex: What You Need to Know

The latest Findex shows global progress on access to financial services, but it also illustrates challenges in reaching marginalized groups and increasing usage.
FinDev Blog

The Story of Her: Gender Insights from FinScope

FinScope’s layered approach to data collection and analysis allows us to explore women’s empowerment at the individual, household, and community levels.
FinDev Blog

Women’s Empowerment Indicators

Unlike other data sources, FII data has a dedicated gender module measuring women’s economic empowerment, which aims to assess whether women's access to finance results in empowerment.
FinDev Blog

Making the Gender Gap Visible

Parsing through mountains of financial inclusion data to find meaningful patterns to advance women’s financial inclusion is overwhelming. CGAP’s Women’s Financial Inclusion Community of Practice guides you through the data.
FinDev Blog

Data Science Brings Education Finance to More Families

Opportunity International shares its unique approach to education finance, using algorithms to get more children in school through education loans for families and low-cost private schools.
FinDev Blog

Big Data Also Means Big Privacy and Security Challenges

How can we take advantage of the opportunities big data offers while respecting people’s privacy?
FinDev Interview

Leveraging Big Data for Financial Inclusion: Opportunities and Risks

Interview with digital finance specialist Philippe Breul
FinDev Blog

Top Five Things to Know About the 2014 Global Findex Report

Highlighting the world’s most comprehensive database on financial inclusion
FinDev Guide

FinDev Guide to Data - Tracking the Global Response to COVID-19

Find out who is tracking what with this list of coronavirus-related data and trackers useful for the financial inclusion community.