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Empowering Women Micro-Entrepreneurs Through Mobile
This landscape report sheds light on how women micro-entrepreneurs use mobile for business in low- and middle-income countries.
Female Access to Finance: A Survey of Literature
This working paper examines the current academic literature on access to finance for female entrepreneurs and female-led enterprises. It focuses on two main financing markets: credit and venture capital.
Fintech for Climate Resilience: A Compendium of Startup Innovations Building Resilience in Emerging Markets
This report by the CIFAR Alliance Investors Working Group highlights 11 successful ventures that are building solutions to improve the resilience of communities susceptible to climate change, enabled by fintech.
Igniting SDG Progress Through Digital Financial Inclusion
This edition of SDG Progress provides extensive evidence-based examples of the benefits of digital financial services for the 13 relevant Sustainable Development Goals with a stronger focus on women and climate change.
Integrated Digital Financial Service Models for Financial and Healthcare Access
This report studies the application of digital financial services to mutually support financial inclusion and improve healthcare access and resilience.
Jarri Jung From Triple Jump on the Role of Subordinated Debt in MFI Financing
In this podcast episode the Director of Financial Institutions at Triple Jump, Jarri Jung discusses the outlook for the microfinance sector and talks about the opportunities and challenges of lending subordinated debt.
Savings Products for Low-Income Customers
This brief describes strategies adopted by a broad range of financial service providers to sustainably serve savings group members and other low-income savers.
Digital Finance: The Consumer Experience, 2023
This report develops a fair digital finance index for low and middle-income countries which are members of the Accelerator - a group of associations trained to represent the collective consumer voice in fair digital finance.
Digital Finance’s Little Secret... (Agent Networks)
This episode explores the latest advances in agent networks and what they mean for the future of inclusive finance.
Financial Digitalization and Its Implications for ASEAN+3 Regional Financial Stability
This publication explores how digitalization is shaking up the finance industry in ASEAN+3 economies, outlines risks and opportunities, and suggests ways of protecting regional financial stability.