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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.
FinDev Blog

Social Investors’ Message on Client Protection: “Financial Service Providers Don’t Have to Do It Alone”

A new roadmap and certification program supports providers to implement client protection standards.
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.
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.
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.
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 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. 
FinDev Guide

FinDev COVID-19 Update | 26 Aug - 08 Sep 2021

A roundup of the most relevant coronavirus-related news, resources and events from the past two weeks
FinDev Guide

FinDev COVID-19 Update | 12 - 25 Aug 2021

A roundup of the most relevant coronavirus-related news, resources and events from the past two weeks
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.