Financial inclusion today is about financial markets that serve more people with more products at lower cost. This focus note first describes the challenges of the broader financial inclusion landscape...
Financial inclusion today is about financial markets that serve more people with more products at lower cost. This focus note first describes the challenges of the broader financial inclusion landscape...
Financial inclusion today is about financial markets that serve more people with more products at lower cost. This focus note first describes the challenges of the broader financial inclusion landscape...
This guide presents practical advice to providers on how to build a viable network of agents, which is a critical component of a branchless banking service. This guide is based on more than a year of research...
New research reveals that low-income families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa use an average of eight different financial instruments each year to move money over time, and that active management...
New research reveals that low-income families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa use an average of eight different financial instruments each year to move money over time, and that active management...
New research reveals that low-income families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa use an average of eight different financial instruments each year to move money over time, and that active management...
New research reveals that low-income families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa use an average of eight different financial instruments each year to move money over time, and that active management...
Earlier this year, Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) teamed up with the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) Association (GSMA) (a global trade association for the mobile communications...
Governments make regular payments to at least 170 million poor people worldwide far more than the 99 million or so who have active microloans. In this focus note, the authors look at government-to-person...
Governments make regular payments to at least 170 million poor people worldwide far more than the 99 million or so who have active microloans. In this focus note, the authors look at government-to-person...
The growing use of branchless banking channels over the coming years is inevitable in most countries. But it's far less certain whether large numbers of the unbanked poor will use these alternative channels...
The growing use of branchless banking channels over the coming years is inevitable in most countries. But it's far less certain whether large numbers of the unbanked poor will use these alternative channels...
Despite growing agreement on the potential of technology to expand access to finance, or branchless banking, there is surprisingly little data publicly available about low-income users. This brief draws...
Innovative use of information and communications technologies to inexpensively process a large volume of small transactions and deliver a wide range of financial services may help to make microfinance...
Mobile phones can be used for financial services in three different ways: for micro payments (m-commerce), as electronic money (e-money), and as a banking channel. The report examines who offers mobile...
Innovative use of information and communications technologies to inexpensively process a large volume of small transactions and deliver a wide range of financial services may help to make microfinance...
Mobile phones can be used for financial services in three different ways: for micro payments (m-commerce), as electronic money (e-money), and as a banking channel. The report examines who offers mobile...
Utilisées de manière innovante, les technologies de l’information et de la communication peuvent permettre de traiter d’importants volumes de petites transactions à moindre coût, de fournir un large éventail...
This report summarizes the results of the fifth test of the Country-Level Savings Assessment Toolkit under development as part of CGAP's Savings Initiative. The purpose of the toolkit is to help government...