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Inclusive Fintech: How Startups Are Bridging the Finance Gap for Microenterprises
This focus note features a range of case studies based on CGAP's research and highlights the potential and actual impacts of microenterprise fintech models.
Young Women's Financial Inclusion: What Works
This paper presents lessons learned from initiatives that aim to increase financial inclusion among low-income young women, ages 15–24, in low- and middle-income countries.
Boosting SME Finance for Growth
This report offers strategic and actionable guidance to policymakers in strengthening their access to finance policies for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Responsible Digital Finance Ecosystem (RDFE) : A Conceptual Framework
This RDFE conceptual framework seeks to encourage financial sector authorities, and other key ecosystem actors, to boost financial consumer protection in the digital era with a holistic vision of the ecosystem.
Systemic Implications of Financial Inclusion
This study analyzes the impact of financial inclusion on various bank risk dimensions, including systemic risk, which has been underexplored.
Designing Cash Transfer and Graduation Programs to Support Women’s Economic Activity: Synthesis of Recent Literature
This review summarizes the impact of such interventions as graduation programs and cash transfers, as well as variations in design and delivery, on economic, and non-economic outcomes among female recipients.
Digital Payments, Informality and Economic Growth
This study examines the relationship between digital payment adoption and growth, productivity and informal labor in 101 economies from 2014 to 2019.
Financial Inclusion and Disruptive Innovation: Regulatory Implications
Financial Inclusion Compass 2024
This publication provides a comprehensive analysis of the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in the financial inclusion sector.
Financial Inclusion for Migrants and Refugees: Insights From Credit Unions
This report looks at the role credit unions play in supporting migrants and refugees in Brazil, Ecuador, Poland and the United States.