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Survey Report on Fintech for MSME Access to Financing
This survey report provides insights on the regulatory landscape of the usage of fintech to increase access to financing for MSMEs and the overall promotion of financial inclusion.
Weathering the Storm II: Tales of Survival From Microfinance Crises Past
This publication shares lessons learned from 16 institutions that dealt with crises, framed by a four-part hierarchy of needs: liquidity, confidence, portfolio, and capital.
Women’s Economic Empowerment and Financial Inclusion in Indonesia: Levers to Move Women From Inclusion to Empowerment
Grounded in an analysis of norms governing women’s agency, ability to enact preferences, bargaining power and financial independence, this report provides a conceptual framework to move Indonesian women from financial inclusion to empowerment.
Beyond the Barriers of Affordability: An Analysis of India’s Cooking Fuel Support Program Under the COVID-19 Assistance Package
The objective of the study is to assess various social protection interventions of the central and state governments during COVID-19 and suggest improvements to the programs.
Borderless Payments Report
This report provides detailed analysis for cross-border financial service providers to meet evolving consumer and small business needs and expectations.
COVID-19 G2P Cash-Transfer Payments - Case Study: Philippines
This case study highlights how the Government of the Philippines (GoP) responded to the pandemic with strong social protection measures. The government program that was created in March 2020 aims to provide cash assistance to 18 million households (over 75 percent of total households) in the country. This case study documents the lessons learned from the implementation of the program, focusing on the digital G2P (government to persons) payment delivery.
Digital Financial Literacy Guideline Note
This guideline note presents key considerations for regulators and policymakers to understand, develop, facilitate policies and design interventions at advancing digital financial education and financial literacy.
Enabling Women’s Financial Inclusion Through Digital Financial Literacy
This brief helps unpack the different dimensions of digital financial literacy (DFL) and demonstrate why they should not be tackled in isolation as they are very much connected. It includes four case studies of organizations addressing DFL in their work in Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Ghana.
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.