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The Gateway hosts the largest, freely available online collection of resources dedicated to microfinance and financial inclusion. We source and accept submissions for a range of documents that cover 38 topics. Learn more about submission guidelines.

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Key Strategies for Banks Expanding Reach to MSME Segment in Kenya
Five recommendations to help banks increase financing to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises
Type: 
Paper
Date: 
Mar 2017
Author: 
Gachui, C.
Publisher: 
MicroSave
Where Credit Is Due: Customer Experience of Digital Credit In Kenya
What are the reasons behind high default rates on digital credit?
Type: 
Paper
Date: 
Mar 2017
Author: 
Mustafa, Z., Wachira, M., Bersudskaya, V., Nanjero, W. & Wright, G. A. N.
Publisher: 
MicroSave
Who Sends Money to Whom? Gendered Flows of Mobile Money in Kenya
An anthropological approach to digital finance using social network analysis
Type: 
Highlight
Date: 
Mar 2017
Author: 
Kusimba, S.
Publisher: 
Microfinance Gateway
The Long-Run Poverty and Gender Impacts of Mobile Money
Assessment of M-PESA's role in the economic lives of Kenyans
Type: 
Paper
Date: 
Dec 2016
Author: 
Suri, T. & Jack, W.
Publisher: 
Science
A Buck Short: What Financial Diaries Tell Us About Building Financial Services That Matter to Low-Income Women
Why do women in emerging markets access and use formal financial services less than men?
Type: 
Paper
Date: 
Oct 2016
Author: 
Sanford, C. & Zollmann, J.
Publisher: 
Bankable Frontier Associates
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Omidyar Network
Credit on the Cusp: Strengthening Credit Markets for Upward Mobility in Africa
How credit can help support the emergence of a middle class
Type: 
Paper
Date: 
Sep 2016
Publisher: 
FSD Africa
Hearthholds of Mobile Money in Western Kenya
The role of women in mobile money networks
Type: 
Paper
Date: 
Jun 2016
Author: 
Kusimba, S., Yang, Y. & Chawla, N.
Publisher: 
Economic Anthropology
A Quantum Leap Over High Hurdles to Financial Inclusion: The Mobile Banking Revolution in Kenya
Examining the real impact of technological and business model innovations on poverty reduction
Type: 
Paper
Date: 
Jun 2016
Author: 
Rosengard, J.
Publisher: 
The SWIFT Institute
Struggling To Thrive: How Kenya’s Low-income Families (Try To) Pay for Healthcare
Summary of findings from a study of 298 household incomes, expenditures and financing behaviors
Type: 
Paper
Date: 
Mar 2016
Author: 
Zollmann, J. & Ravishankar, N.
Publisher: 
Financial Sector Deepening Trust Kenya (FSDK)
Competition in Mobile Financial Services: Lessons from Kenya &Tanzania
Insights on the role that effective competition and competition policy play in developing MFS
Type: 
Case study
Date: 
Jan 2016
Author: 
Mazer, R., Rowan, P.
Publisher: 
CGAP