Documents et rapports

Digital Financial Inclusion : Emerging Policy Approaches (anglais)

In recognition of the importance of new technologies and business models for expanding financial inclusion, the G20 developed the 2010 principles for innovative financial inclusion which spurred policy...

Improving Access to Finance for Ghanaian SMEs : Is there a Role for a New Development Finance Institution? : Improving Access to Finance for Ghanaian SMEs -Role for a New DFI (anglais)

This report discusses the financial sector context in Ghana, the major financing gaps in the country, the global experience with DFIs, and identifies key aspects associated with the proposed DFI’s design...

Coordination structures for financial inclusion strategies and reforms (anglais)

Over 45 countries have made commitments to financial inclusion targets and strategies, including through the alliance for financial inclusion (AFI) and the G20 financial inclusion peer learning program...

Mozambique - Diagnostic review of consumer protection and financial literacy (Vol. 2 of 2) : Comparison with good practices (anglais)

This Review of Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy (CPFL) is an initial priority follow up to the Mozambique Financial Sector Development Strategy (MFSDS) for 2012-2021. CPFL in the banking and...

Mozambique - Diagnostic review of consumer protection and financial literacy (Vol. 1 of 2) : Key findings and recommendations (anglais)

This Review of Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy (CPFL) is an initial priority follow up to the Mozambique Financial Sector Development Strategy (MFSDS) for 2012-2021. CPFL in the banking and...

Financial inclusion strategies : reference framework (anglais)

Financial inclusion strategies can be defined as road maps of actions, agreed and defined at the national or subnational level,that stakeholders follow to achieve financial inclusion objectives. Successful...

Middle East and North Africa Region - SMEs for job creation in the Arab world : SME access to financial services (anglais)

The Arab Spring in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has brought to the forefront key challenges: the need to create job opportunities, equal access, a level playing field, transparency and...

The status of bank lending to SMES in the Middle East and North Africa region : the results of a joint survey of the Union of Arab Bank and the World Bank (anglais)

Among the principal constraints for SME lending is the lack of SME transparency, poor credit information from credit registries and bureaus, and weak creditor rights. If constraints can be addressed, lending...

Financial inclusion in the Middle East and North Africa : analysis and roadmap recommendations (anglais)

The paper provides an assessment of the state of financial inclusion in the MENA region, and identifies constraints, opportunities, and priorities for significantly improving access to finance. Practical...

West Bank and Gaza - Capacity-Building for Palestinian Economic and Regulatory Institutions : P118560 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 02 (anglais)

West Bank and Gaza - Capacity-Building for Palestinian Economic and Regulatory Institutions : P118560 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 01 (anglais)

Microfinance in the Arab world : the challenge of financial inclusion (anglais)

Financial inclusion is about introducing justice and equity in financial systems and focuses on: (i) extending financial services to previously excluded populations and micro-entrepreneurs; (ii) empowering...

Managing risks and designing products for agricultural microfinance : features of an emerging model (anglais)

Globally, 1.2 billion people are extremely poor surviving on less than one dollar a day and three-quarters live in rural areas. Poverty is predominantly a rural phenomenon. Extremely poor people spend...

Managing risks and designing products for agricultural microfinance : features of an emerging model (chinois)

Globally, 1.2 billion people are extremely poor surviving on less than one dollar a day and three-quarters live in rural areas. Poverty is predominantly a rural phenomenon. Extremely poor people spend...

Managing risks and designing products for agricultural microfinance : features of an emerging model : Gestion de riesgos y diseno de productos para las microfinanzas agricolas : caracteristicas de un modelo emergente (espagnol)

Globally, 1.2 billion people are extremely poor surviving on less than one dollar a day and three-quarters live in rural areas. Poverty is predominantly a rural phenomenon. Extremely poor people spend...

Small farmers in Mozambique access credit and markets by forming associations with assistance from the Cooperative League of the USA (CLUSA) (anglais)

The Cooperative League of the USA (CLUSA) launched its Rural Group Enterprise Development Program in Mozambique in the mid-1990s, when the country was still overcoming armed conflict and settling into...

Bai Tushum financial foundation, Kyrgystan (anglais)

Bai Tushum's experience highlights the fact that agricultural loans may generate lower returns and higher risks than non-agricultural loans, in difficult environments (e.g., with low rural population density...

Microfinance agricole : gérer les risques et concevoir des produits adaptés - les caractéristiques d’un modèle émergent (français)

À l’échelle mondiale, 1,2 milliard de personnes sont extrêmement pauvres, c’est-à-dire qu’elles vivent avec moins d’un dollar par jour, et les trois quarts de ces personnes vivent en milieu rural. La pauvreté...

Managing risks and designing products for agricultural microfinance : features of an emerging model (arabe)

Globally, 1.2 billion people are extremely poor surviving on less than one dollar a day and three-quarters live in rural areas. Poverty is predominantly a rural phenomenon. Extremely poor people spend...

Caja Los Andes (Bolivia) diversifies into rural lending (anglais)

Caja Los Andes (CLA) has distinguished itself as a profitable, diversified provider of individual loans in the highly competitive Bolivian microfinance market. (Caja Los Andes, F.F.P., became Banco Los...