Women and Credit: Access to Credit for Micro and Small Female Entrepreneurs, Including Collective Enterprises in India
This report delves into micro and small women entrepreneurs’ credit journey exploring demand and supply-side factors and provides key recommendations to enhance access to credit for women entrepreneurs.
Account Inactivity in India—Is There a Problem?
In this note, the authors discuss potential reasons for account dormancy and advocate a shift in approach to financial inclusion.
Women: Risk and Consumer Protection in Online Leading Platforms in Indonesia
This study delves into women's experiences as users of online lending platforms in Indonesia using a gender lens to examine the risks in online lending platforms unique to women.
Voices of India’s MSMEs: Insights Notes From the Diaries Access to Finance
This note discusses examples from MSC's Financial Diaries research on informal enterprises and provides recommendations for policymakers and financial service providers to address the credit gap for them.
G2P Next in India: Choice, Resilience and Inclusivity
This policy brief draws on global trends to understand how government-to-person programs can evolve to address India's challenges.
Impact of Climate Change on Smallholders and Their Coping Strategies
This research dives into strategies that can help build smallholder farmers' climate resilience.
Mobile Money Agents: Sustainability in the Digital Era - Findings From Mozambique
This report looks at the pressing challenges affecting Mozambican mobile money agents to inform the players in the ecosystem and create sustainable strategies to improve agent networks.
Can G2P Unlock Women’s Economic Empowerment? Evidence From Asia and Africa
This slide deck documents MSC's journey of evaluating key government-to-person (G2P) programs across Asia and Africa to understand how G2P payments impact women.
Decoding Government Support to Women Entrepreneurs in India
This report maps government entrepreneurship support schemes across six key ecosystem needs and shares valuable insights on them.
Lending to Cash-in Cash-out (Cico) Agents
This report focuses on the agent lending landscape in nine low- and middle-income countries that represent mature and evolving markets to provide insights into the larger global opportunity.