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Pakistan Housing Finance: Is There a Business Case for Financial Institutions?

This study highlights the need for financial institutions to expand into housing finance across different income segments—particularly low and middle income households—and regions.

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Financial Diaries: Financial Health of Low and Medium-Income Households During COVID-19 Pandemic

In order to understand how low and moderate income people were doing during the COVID-19 pandemic, BRAC Microfinance conducted financial diaries research with 273 households from different earning categories.

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Understanding Micro- and Small-Growth Entrepreneurs in Vietnam, Pakistan and Peru

This report provides an overview of "the current state of strivers" across these countries with an aim to understand the emerging unmet needs through market assessments.

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Enabling Women’s Financial Inclusion Through Digital Financial Literacy

This brief helps unpack the different dimensions of digital financial literacy (DFL) and demonstrate why they should not be tackled in isolation as they are very much connected. It includes four case studies of organizations addressing DFL in their work in Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Ghana.

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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.

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Empowering Women on a Journey Towards Digital Financial Capability

This report focuses on building the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for customers to engage with digital financial services.

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Impact of COVID-19 on FinTechs: Bangladesh

This report presents the impact of the pandemic on the operations, revenue, and coping strategies of fintechs in Bangladesh.

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Narrowing the Gender Gap in Mobile Banking

Evidence from field experiments in Bangladesh examining the gender gap in the adoption and usage of mobile banking

Guide / Toolkit

Risk Sharing Facilities: Mobilizing Finance for Women-Led MSMEs

Toolkit for policymakers, regulators, supervisors involved in the formulation and implementation of policy and regulation that advance access to finance for women-led MSMEs

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Changing Diaspora

Performance review of microfinance banks in Pakistan from 2017 to June 2020