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Growth Pangs of the Pandemic, Revisited
This Advisory Note sets out M-CRIL's expectation of a four-to-five-year adjustment and recovery period from the COVID crisis, and imagines a road to recovery for the microfinance sector as a whole.
Designing Emergency Loans: The Experience of Dvara KGFS
This brief shares the process and the lessons that went into the design of the emergency loan product.
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.
Impact of COVID-19 on FinTechs: India
This report delves deep into the innovative strategies fintechs used to overcome the pandemic, measures taken by the government and regulators to enable ecosystem players, and the support fintechs received from investors and accelerators.
Challenging Exclusion: Refugees' Uptake of Mobile Money
This research investigates the appetite of female refugees in Jordan towards mobile money and studies their behavior to better cater to their needs in collaboration with sector players.
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.
Making Finance Work for Refugees: Microfund for Women, Experience in Serving Refugees and Host Communities in Jordan
This brief documents the experience of MFW, which provides sustainable (non-) financial services to female entrepreneurs and to empower them socio-economically.
Regulatory and Supervisory Approaches for NBFCs
This position paper provides a holistic vision for the role of non-banking finance companies in India's credit ecosystem and the corresponding regulatory, supervisory and resolution frameworks that should apply to them.
Impact of COVID-19 on the Yemeni Economy
How the drop in remittances affected economic sectors, food systems, and households
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