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The Role of Data Analytics in Business Development in Low-Income Markets
This focus note discusses the principles of working with data within project or product teams, present tested tools, and shares how SatF partners are benefitting from their deployment.
Gender Lens Investing Landscape: Gaps, Challenges, and Opportunities in Financial Inclusion for Women
This report provides evidence that while microfinance has been a driver of economic opportunities for underserved women globally, a more well-rounded gender lens investing approach is required to generate the level of impact necessary to truly advance financial inclusion for women.
Insights From the 2021 Inclusive Fintech 50 Applicant Pool
This report examines application data from nearly 300 eligible fintech applicants from the 2021 Inclusive Fintech 50 competition to better understand the state of early-stage fintechs.
Measuring Financial Health: Concepts and Considerations
This note provides financial sector policymakers with a discussion of the technical concepts relevant to financial health measurement. The purpose is to explain and demystify the various approaches for a non-technical audience, drawing on existing experiences and the state of the art.
How Regulators Use Sex-Disaggregated Data and Regtech to Enhance Financial Inclusion
This study examines the role that financial services regulators can play in efforts to address financial inclusion of women.
Digital Innovation for Climate-Resilient Agriculture
This study outlines how data and other mobile network operator assets can be used to enable or improve digital climate resilience services, and identify opportunities for operators to generate revenues.
The Stories Algorithms Tell: Bias and Financial Inclusion at the Data Margins
This publication shares insights for financial inclusion stakeholders on what algorithms can say about who is creditworthy in emerging markets, the risks for those it leaves out, and what it all might mean for inclusive finance.
Demand-side Approach to Inclusive Green Finance Data Collection
This Guideline Note discusses a first approach to demand-side data collection to support financial regulators and financial service providers to measure the needs and perspectives of the target populations related to the impact of climate-related events.
Guideline Note on Data Privacy for Digital Financial Services
The purpose of the Guideline Note is to provide non-binding guidance for a comprehensive, risk-based and proportionate policy and regulatory framework for data privacy for digital financial services.
CGAP Smallholder Household Data: Analysis and Insights from the National Surveys and Financial Diaries
Insights for FSPs to develop products that help customers manage risks in their day-to-day lives