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What 18,000 Clients Say About Their Microfinance Experience
A new Microfinance Index captures client-level outcomes across five dimensions of impact, providing us with key insights that help us understand how client outcomes vary with different types of microfinance services.
By Devin Olmack, Ellie Rodgers, Sasha Dichter, 60 Decibels
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How Do Savings Contribute to Financial Health?
A meta-review leads to two mental shifts in approaches to savings research.
By Elisabeth Rhyne, Jayshree Venkatesan
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What Do Microfinance Clients Need to Adapt to Climate Change?
In the first post of the FinDev Blog Series on Climate Change and Financial Inclusion, we explore insights from Rwandan smallholder farmers on building climate resilience through microfinance.
By Emanuella Christensen, Olga Biosca, Michael Mikulewicz, Liberata Mukamana, Patrick Mugiraneza, Karin Helwig
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From Ideation to Iteration: Human-Centered Design of Micro-Savings in Nigeria
LAPO Microfinance Bank learned five important lessons from their experience using a human-centered design process to revamp their child savings account product.
By Irene Wagaki, Lime Group Africa
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Meet Ivy the Innovator and Charlie the Copycat on Their Journey to Financial Inclusion
Understanding how different consumer behaviors affect adoption rates can help financial inclusion practitioners fine-tune their efforts.
By Vinay Kumar Singh, India Development Foundation
FinDev Blog
Using Data and Machine Learning to Close the Gender Gap in DR Congo
Differences in product awareness show that we need to look deeper at sub-segments among women if we want to achieve equality of financial access.
By Scott Graham, Anahit Tevosyan, FINCA International
FinDev Blog
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
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Financial Health: The Opportunity for Financial Service Providers
If FSPs prioritize the financial health of their customers, they will not only increase customer loyalty, but they will build a more robust client base that will lead to longer term sustainability for their businesses.
By Payal Dalal, Mastercard
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
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