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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.
By Jamie Anderson, CGAP
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.
By Greta Bull, CGAP
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.
By Soham Banerji, CGAP
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.
By Soham Banerji, CGAP
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.
By Soham Banerji, CGAP
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.
By Nathan Byrd, Opportunity International
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?
By Valdete Berisha, Microfinance Gateway
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.