Analysis of Peru’s Financial Consumer Listening Mechanisms
This slide deck presents the findings of research commissioned by CGAP as part of its work on empowering market conduct authorities and other stakeholders to monitor consumer risks and elevating collective consumers’ voice.
The Global Findex Database: Financial Inclusion, Digital Payments, and Resilience in the Age of COVID-19
This edition of the Global Findex database contains updated indicators on access to and use of formal and informal financial services and digital payments, and offers insights into the behaviors that enable financial resilience.
The Business Case for Linkage With Informal Savings
This note summarizes practices and lessons learned from the Savings at the Frontier program on providing funding and technical assistance to financial service providers.
The Role of Data Analytics in Business Development in Low-Income Markets
This focus note discusses the principles of working with data within project or product teams, present tested tools, and shares how SatF partners are benefitting from their deployment.
Pacific Insurance and Climate Adaptation Programme: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Strategy
This report describes PICAP’s approach towards achieving and mainstreaming gender equality and social inclusion to ensure that women and the most vulnerable are fully represented in climate disaster risk financing products (e.g., parametric insurance).
Savings and Financial Health
This meta-study explores findings from the savings literature that relate to the key elements used to define financial health, and explores whether they indicate that savings contribute to financial health.
Gender-Aware Supervision Toolkit
This practical, hands-on resource intends to highlight the relevance of gender inclusion and awareness to supervisory authorities and support them in taking their next steps towards more gender-aware supervision.
Banking in Layers: Five Cases to Illustrate How the Market Structure for Financial Services is Evolving
Exploring the market-level modularization of financial services through case studies featuring new models that are emerging, how they are coming about, and what they mean for the financial inclusion of low-income people in emerging markets and developing economies.
Low-Income Financial Services Market Sizing and Fintech Assessment: Kenya Country Report
This slide deck presents research findings estimating the size of the medium and small enterprise and low-income credit markets in Kenya, and assesses the potential of fintech firms to meet the needs of those markets.
VisionFund Impact Evaluation - Finance Accelerating Savings Group Transformation (FAST)
This report provides a research summary of two impact evaluations looking at VisionFund´s FAST program – lending to savings groups, to determine if it accomplished its main program objectives.