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Detecting Borrower Distress
There is an urgent need in India and globally to design policies to prevent over-indebtedness. But first, it must be measured. A new framework for monitoring credit markets proposes how.
By Dwijaraj Bhattacharya, Dvara Research
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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 Blog
Can Insurance Make Small-Scale Solar Energy More Accessible?
Small-scale solar installations have been an important innovation to bring electricity to remote areas, but they face many risks which jeopardize their ability to provide a continuous energy supply.
By Julia Beneke
FinDev Blog
How To Get a Historic Bilateral Deal to Share Agent Banking Infrastructure
Scale2Save partners FINCA and Centenary Bank in Uganda go from competition to cooperation, sharing service-distribution infrastructure for the benefit of end-user low-income customers.
By Kimathi Githachuri, Scale2Save
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The Resilience of Mobile Money in Sub-Saharan Africa
Quick responses by providers and regulators in the region helped mobile money keep growing despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Support for agent networks and more flexible on-boarding practices were key.
By Simon K. Andersson-Manjang, GSMA
FinDev Blog
How a New Set of Metrics Is Poised to Transform PAYGo Solar
The PAYGo PERFORM Key Performance Indicators offer a pathway to growth and maturity for the off-grid solar industry.
By Roan Borst, Bill Gallery, Kevin Kennedy, Nicky Khaki, Max Mattern
FinDev Blog
Going Digital Is Not Enough to Reach Scale
More radical organizational change - in the form of self-management - is needed to solve microfinance’s optimization problem.
By Philip Acton, DreamStart Labs
FinDev Blog
Catalyzing Women's Bank Account Use Through COVID-19 Relief
Women's World Banking partnered with a major public sector bank in India to see what effect the government's COVID-19 payments had on women's account activity.
By Pragya Gupta, Marina Dimova, Women’s World Banking
FinDev Blog
Women As Changemakers Improve Access to Water and Sanitation
How does women’s participation in household investment decisions accelerate access to quality water and sanitation services?
By Gaurav Sinha, Rahul Ranjan Sinha, Grameen Foundation
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Can Financial Service Providers Help Reduce Intimate Partner Violence?
A review of the literature finds that combining microfinance services with social empowerment interventions has been effective, and that measures to reduce the financial stress associated with taking on debt could also help.
By Bobbi Gray, Amelia Kuklewicz, Grameen Foundation