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Shifting Perspectives: From Financial Inclusion to Financial Health of Forcibly Displaced Persons (FDPs)
Three years since the Global Compact on Refugees, financial health remains elusive for most refugees. New research puts forth a financial health framework for measuring progress against the challenges refugees face.
By Linnea Kreibohm, Barri Shorey, Hans-Martin Zademach, Kim Wilson
FinDev Blog
How Do We Measure Financial Health?
In the third post of our blog series on financial health, we explore how capturing the essence of this multi-dimensional concept takes us beyond standard measures of financial access or income.
By Paul Gubbins, Ben Mazzotta
FinDev Blog
Four Ways Financial Sector Policymakers Can Promote Financial Health
In the second post in our blog series on financial health, we explore what policymakers can do to ensure that the financial sector works to support people’s financial wellbeing.
By Elisabeth Rhyne
FinDev Blog
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.
By Pia Bernadette Roman Tayag, UNSGSA
FinDev Guide
Guide to Financial Health
This guide summarizes recent work on financial health that is relevant for policy and practice across the world, to help you get up to speed on the current state of the financial health movement.
FinDev Blog
Can Focused Policy Reforms Help Bring Back Remittances?
How the Ethiopian government is tackling the challenge of declining remittances and economic contraction brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Eliamringi Mandari, Amani Itatiro, UNCDF
FinDev Blog
Financial Inclusion Via Sea Cable
Greater connectivity has the potential to advance digital finance in the Pacific islands, but governments and development partners will need to provide significant support.
By Alex Reddaway, Bram Peters
FinDev Blog
Innovation vs. Consumer Protection: Striking the Right Regulatory Balance
Five principles and five key actions to help build trust and confidence in Kenya’s digital finance ecosystem
By Dr. Peter Mwencha, Martin Mulwa
FinDev Blog
From the Microfinance Coalition: Call to Action for Policymakers
Policymakers should work closely with MFIs to find the right balance between helping clients in times of stress and preserving the long-term financial viability of the sector.
By The Microfinance Coalition
FinDev Blog
On the Way to Reducing the Gender Gap in Latin America
What National Financial Inclusion Strategies have accomplished so far in the region, and what more needs to be done
By Elena María Caballero Calle, Carolina Trivelli