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The Building Blocks Supporting Open Finance
This working paper introduces the concept of an inclusive data ecosystem as one where low-income people’s data trails are used to improve their financial inclusion.
Green Essential Practices Report - Highlights of Good Green Practices
This report features a selection of exemplary green inclusive finance practices, and offers insights into the successes, the challenges faced by financial service providers and the solutions they found to design and implement their green strategy.
Positive Friction for Responsible Digital Lending: A Call to Action
This report explores how strategically adding friction to digital financial services can benefit both lenders and borrowers.
State of the Practice: Savings Group Linkages 2024
Based on interviews with 46 practitioners across various sectors, this report delineates the contemporary landscape of linkages between informal savings groups and formal financial services.
Supply-Side Gender Disaggregated Data for Advancing Financial Inclusion
This paper explores how supply-side gender-disaggregated data has been collected and used, mainly by financial sector authorities but also by providers, and the challenges and opportunities associated with this work.
What Win-Win Lost: Rethinking Microfinance Subsidy in the Past and Designing for the Future
This working paper calls for reclaiming the power and value of subsidy to accomplish policy goals in order for the future of social investment in microfinance to be more effective.
Impact Assessment of Financial Service Providers: Market Conduct Risk-Based Supervision Guideline Note
This guideline note is meant to assist policymakers in developing impact assessment frameworks, under the MC-RBS umbrella and the overarching goals of financial consumer protection policy.
Make Recourse Clear, Quick and Responsive
This resource is meant for Better Than Cash Alliance members and partners aiming to fortify recourse mechanisms through policy evolution.
What Women Say About Microfinance
This report offers an in-depth look at the impact of microfinance and financial services on women's financial resilience, access to finance, and on their businesses and households.
Climate-Related Development Finance to Agrifood Systems
This publication addresses the persistent knowledge gap related to climate finance to agrifood systems, providing data and information to support countries making informed decisions towards agrifood systems transformation.