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Financial Inclusion With Blockchain
This factsheet highlights the current challenges involved in widespread implementation of Blockchain technology and offers recommendations for stakeholders in international development cooperation.
Financial Innovation to Support Women-Led Businesses
This document summarizes the main characteristics of Mexico's first gender bond with the aim of expanding the resources available to finance projects led by women in rural areas.
Gender Data in Financial Inclusion
This FinEquity Brief highlights how, as a component of gender data, sex-disaggregated data can support women's financial inclusion.
Guideline Note on Sex-Disaggregated Data Report Templates
Practical experiences and lessons learned from AFI members on standard supply-side data collection mechanisms
Impact of Economic and COVID-19 Crises on Microcredit Borrowers
Findings based on quantitative and qualitative research conducted over the phone (questionnaires and in-depth interviews)
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on MSMEs
Policy recommendations to help MSMEs recover from the pandemic
IT and Cybersecurity in the Financial Sector
This factsheet shares the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development's and German development cooperation's intentions and calls for actions for combating cybercrime in emerging economies.
MFIs on the Rebound, but Will It Last?
From February to April 2020, microfinance institutions (MFIs) within the Symbiotics portfolio saw disbursements and repayments contract sharply across all regions.
Microcredit in Cambodia: Why is There So Much Support for a Failed Poverty Reduction Model?
Critical examination of Cambodia’s microfinance sector
Navigating Through COVID-19: A Snapshot on How the Pandemic Affected MSMEs in Sierra Leone
Country assessment reflecting the impact of the pandemic on banked enterprises