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African SMEs Through COVID-19: Challenges, Policy Responses and Recommendations
This policy brief stresses the key challenges faced by SMEs on the continent and analyzes how these challenges are likely to be exacerbated by COVID-19.
Consumer Risks in Fintech
This paper identifies a range of consumer risks posed by fintech and discusses consumer protection regulatory approaches for policy makers to consider when developing regulatory policy to target such risks.
COVID-19: Accelerating the Use of Digital Agriculture
This report provides insights on the adoption of digital agriculture and how it can be accelerated in light of the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Designing Emergency Loans: The Experience of Dvara KGFS
This brief shares the process and the lessons that went into the design of the emergency loan product.
Digitizing Workers' Payments for Economic Recovery and Decent Work
This study offers a unique perspective by comparing concrete experiences of large companies to small and medium enterprises.
Examining PAYGo Solar Through a Gender Lens: An Exploratory Study
This research explores the PAYGo solar model's potential to serve as a pathway to women's energy access and financial inclusion, examining gender differences in access to PAYGo and impacts from use of off-grid solar devices.
From Cash to Digital Wage Payments in the Philippines: Win-Win for Enterprises and Women Employees
This research study analyzes the financial behaviors and attitudes of Filipino workers and the benefits and challenges for enterprises and workers to move from cash to digital wage payments.
Impact of CODEC Agricultural Unit’s Interventions in Coastal Areas – A Study Among the Targeted Members of the Agricultural Unit at Laxmipur District
This study aims to identify the impact of microfinance with proper technical support in agricultural production on the communities' livelihoods.
Impact of COVID-19 on CICO Agents in Indonesia
This study assesses the impact of COVID-19 on the demand for financial services through agents and agent operations. It seeks to understand the ability of agents to support government assistance programs.
Impact of COVID-19 on FinTechs: India
This report delves deep into the innovative strategies fintechs used to overcome the pandemic, measures taken by the government and regulators to enable ecosystem players, and the support fintechs received from investors and accelerators.