No Small Business: A Segmented Approach to Better Finance for Micro and Small Enterprises
This Focus Note advocates the importance of a segmented approach to addressing micro and small enterprises (MSE) needs and focuses on MSEs with up to 20 employees.
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.
International Day of Family Remittances - Ghana, Kenya & The Gambia
Each event is aimed at highlighting the crucial role of migrants' contribution to the wellbeing of their families back home.
How Can Financial Services Support Platform Work? Insights from Five Emerging Markets
Based on research with platforms and their workers across five countries, this report describes the platform ecosystem in emerging markets, the experiences of workers and sellers in key sectors, and how financial services can help these workers improve their livelihoods.
Women in the Platform Economy: Emerging Insights
This slide deck shares female workers’ experiences and how financial services can help make platforms more inclusive.
Driving Financial Resilience Through Formal Savings Among the Low-Income Population
Based on customer research in Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, and Uganda, this paper provides a synthesis of findings that help understand to what extent savings allowed customers to increase their financial resilience.
Customer-Centric and Responsible Digital Credit Solutions for Urban and Rural Non-farm Entrepreneurs and Smallholder Farmers
This analysis of digital credit users in India, Indonesia, and Kenya assesses the impact of digital credit on their financial health.
Assessing the State of Youth Financial Inclusion in Developing Contexts
This guide draws primarily from the lessons learned during the realization of a series of assessments on the state of youth financial inclusion in Uganda, Kenya, and Guatemala in 2019 and 2020.