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Platform-Based Business Models and Financial Inclusion
This paper assesses how platform-based business models can affect financial inclusion, competition, financial stability and consumer protection.
Better Practice Guidance on Women’s Digital Financial Capability
This document outlines four steps to work through when designing approaches to women’s digital financial capability: Diagnose, Design, Deliver, and Document.
Financial Consumer Protection During a Crisis
This Guideline Note provides policymakers and regulators with a helpful framework to develop effective consumer protection regulations, inclusive consumer awareness and financial education initiatives to plan for future crises.
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.
Gender-Intelligent Fintech Design: How Fintechs Can Capture the Female Economy
This report quantifies the opportunity cost of not taking a gender-intelligent approach and lays out a map that fintechs can use to improve conversion rates of women through each stage of the funnel, equipping fintechs and their investors to take the steps to win the women’s market.
Impact Evaluation of Credit Guarantee Schemes in Agriculture
This study aims to assist policymakers, the academia, development agencies or other stakeholders in overcoming the current gap in empirical data on the impact of agricultural partial credit guarantee schemes by providing key information on technical and operational aspects of impact evaluations of credit guarantee schemes in agriculture.
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.
Investing to Address Gender-Based Violence
This guide outlines strategies on how you can direct investments to address gender-based violence along with providing tools to support conversations with investment advisors and asset managers to help implement those strategies.
Policy Framework on MSME Data Collection: A Guide for Gender Inclusive Finance
This Framework provides data collection guidance for MSME and gender inclusive finance, defines an extended set of MSME finance indicators, and shares best practices to advance financial inclusion for MSMEs.