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Islamic Finance and Financial Inclusion: AFI Members’ Perspectives
This report highlights initiatives and promotes collaboration to further advance financial inclusion through Islamic finance.
Open Finance Self-Assessment Tool and Development Roadmap
This technical guide introduces the open finance self-assessment tool and development roadmap. It provides practical tools for policymakers to use to decide whether to implement an open finance regime to advance financial inclusion.
Policy Diagnostic: Women in Leadership
This policy diagnostic presents policymakers with an overview of gender balance in the finance industry and then focuses on key areas for advancing women’s movement into, and active participation in, executive and other leadership roles.
Rural Women and Financial Inclusion
The purpose of this document is to highlight practical approaches put forward by the sector to guide the work of practitioners in promoting gender-responsive financial inclusion through the design and delivery of appropriate services and products.
Tackling Credit Fairness and Missed Business Opportunities with Reject Inference
“Reject inference” techniques help financial institutions to increase their credit portfolio profitability by improving the accuracy of their approval mechanisms, with implications for offering credit to women who would otherwise be unable to access it.
The Role Regulators Play in Closing the Financial Inclusion Gender Gap: A Case Study of Costa Rica
This case study explores the steps being taken in Costa Rica to increase women's financial inclusion.
The Role Regulators Play in Closing the Financial Inclusion Gender Gap: A Case Study of Fiji
This case study explores the steps being taken by the Reserve Bank of Fiji to increase women's financial inclusion.
Understanding Users’ Experience With Digital Lending Applications in India
This slide deck shares the results of a survey conducted by MSC and FACE to analyze user knowledge and behavior regarding digital lending applications (DLAs) and digital loans.
Women and Equitable Growth in a Resource-Constrained World
This paper addresses the need to reform the international development finance architecture in ways that expand access to affordable credit for women entrepreneurs in the Global South, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.