Women’s Agent Network—the Missing Link in India’s Financial Inclusion Story: A Supply-Side Perspective
The business correspondent model in India enables the banking system to expand its outreach at a low cost and offer essential financial services in remote and underserved areas. This paper share a supply-side perspective on challenges and opportunities for expanding women agent network in India.
Catalyzing Innovation for Women Entrepreneurs
This research, focusing on 328 women entrepreneurs in Samoa, Cambodia and Fiji, explores the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs in accessing and using financing at different stages of their enterprise journey.
Responsible Social Protection: Lessons From COVID-19 Digital Cash Transfers
This publication uncovers consumer risks arising from the rapidly digitizing G2P programs aimed at the most vulnerable in society, most of whom have no prior experience with digital technology or the formal financial system.
Financial Consumer Protection During a Crisis
This Guideline Note provides policymakers and regulators with a helpful framework to develop effective consumer protection regulations, inclusive consumer awareness and financial education initiatives to plan for future crises.
Beneficiary Experience of Digital Government-to-Person (G2P) Payments in Bangladesh, Colombia, and the Philippines
This study explores consumers' experience with digital cash transfers, and supports policy recommendations to improve the effectiveness of G2P payments and future financial inclusion.
Financial Literacy and Digital Financial Inclusion: Supervisory Policy and Practice
This Note recommends measures that regulators and supervisors can put in place to address some of the barriers to financial literacy and thereby enhance financial inclusion.
Mobile Money and Consumer Financial Health
This paper explores key risks to consumer financial health relating particularly to low-to-middle-income countries where mobile money is most prevalent, and how the industry stakeholders are addressing these through best practice examples.
Gender-Intelligent Fintech Design: How Fintechs Can Capture the Female Economy
This report quantifies the opportunity cost of not taking a gender-intelligent approach and lays out a map that fintechs can use to improve conversion rates of women through each stage of the funnel, equipping fintechs and their investors to take the steps to win the women’s market.
Insights From the 2021 Inclusive Fintech 50 Applicant Pool
This report examines application data from nearly 300 eligible fintech applicants from the 2021 Inclusive Fintech 50 competition to better understand the state of early-stage fintechs.
Platform-Based Business Models and Financial Inclusion
This paper assesses how platform-based business models can affect financial inclusion, competition, financial stability and consumer protection.