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Agent Networks at the Last Mile: Implications for Financial Service Providers
This deck shares CGAP's and its partners' comprehensive compilation of recent global knowledge about how Cash-in/Cash-Out agent networks operate in different markets so that it can inform a similar dialogue among financial services providers, policy makers and regulators in other countries.
Agent Networks at the Last Mile: Implications for Policy Makers
This reading deck for policy makers shows how rural Cash-in/Cash-out (CICO) agent network expansion is key to ensuring poor people can capture the benefits of digital financial ecosystems and presents a set of policies that have been effective in enabling rural CICO in a way that benefits vulnerable segments.
Application of CGAP Customer Outcomes Framework in Uganda
This case study tests the impact of a new basic savings product positioned in the financial inclusion market using the CGAP customer outcome indicator framework.
Bridging the Divide: Skills for Digital Financial Equity and Inclusion
This report explores the challenges and opportunities to achieve equitable and inclusive participation in the digital economy, particularly to create or enhance livelihood opportunities.
Central Bank Digital Currency – An Opportunity for Financial Inclusion in Developing and Emerging Economies?
This special report on central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and financial inclusion looks at the current state of financial inclusion across different developing and emerging economies, and identifies the main use cases CBDC can contribute to.
Colombia's Ingreso Solidario: Improving Social Protection Through Public-Private Collaboration and Responsible Digital Payment Practices as Part of COVID-19 Emergency Response
This case study illustrates how designing programs responsibly can result in greater trust in digital financial services, leading to greater volumes of digital transactions, and increased use of digital savings and e-commerce services.
Consumer Risks and Digital Financial Services: A Côte d’Ivoire Study
This study is part of the activities of the Laboratory for the Protection of Digital Financial Services Users launched by CGAP in 2021 with an objective to accompany local actors in building a responsible ecosystem for digital financial services.
Core Indicators to Measure Financial Health and Inclusion
The aim of this guidance is to facilitate the processes of target setting, action plan design and reporting for banks that have chosen financial health and/or financial inclusion as one of their areas of significant impact.
Customer-Centric and Responsible Digital Credit Solutions for Urban and Rural Non-farm Entrepreneurs and Smallholder Farmers
This analysis of digital credit users in India, Indonesia, and Kenya assesses the impact of digital credit on their financial health.
DBT Diagnostic Study: Female Beneficiaries' Experience of Receiving DBT
This slide deck reveals evidence from India on female beneficiaries' experience of receiving government-to-person (direct benefit transfer) payment.