All Publications
Inclusive Green Finance: A Policy and Advocacy Approach
This report examines how access and usage of financial services can help build resilience in the face of climate shocks, while also providing opportunities to participate in green economic sectors, including agriculture, renewable energy, transport, and waste management.
Moving Markets Towards Open Finance
This paper summarizes open finance policy approaches globally, as well as the ways that government-controlled financial data can help catalyze open finance where industry is hesitant to lead.
Consumer Protection for Open Finance Ecosystems
This report identifies several emerging risks related to open finance, and proposes ways in which these risks can be measured, monitored, and mitigated against by leveraging the data available in open finance ecosystems.
Digitally Enabled Climate Finance
This report provides emerging insights on the role of mobile and digital technology in accessing and delivering climate finance in low- and middle-income countries.
Global Landscape: Data Trails of Digitally Included Poor (DIP) People
This reading deck puts a spotlight on the specific data trails generated by digitally included yet poor people, the sources of these data trails, and variations of data trails across different segmentations.
Instant Payments and Merchants — Pricing Policy Considerations
This technical note helps explain why changes in instant payment pricing are occurring, assesses their impact on market development, and offers suggestions for the path forward.
Starting the Transaction: Payment Initiation and Customer Experience
This technical note is framed to help policymakers and payment system operators understand recent trends in payment initiation and customer experience in making interoperable payments work better for low-income populations.
2021 Trends in International Funding for Financial Inclusion
CGAP’s annual Funder Survey breaks down financial inclusion funding data to offer new intelligence about who’s doing what and where—insights that could be used to inform future development programming and ultimately impact the lives of people living in poverty.
Business Intelligence: A Bedrock of Successful Digitization in Microfinance
Microfinance institutions that successfully generate value for their business and customers through digitization anchor these efforts in business intelligence. This Technical Note outlines an approach for improving business intelligence with interventions that require minimum or no investment in technology.
Central Bank Digital Currency and Financial Inclusion
This publication develops a model which incorporates the impact of financial inclusion to study the implications of introducing a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC).