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Inclusive Fintech: How Startups Are Bridging the Finance Gap for Microenterprises
This focus note features a range of case studies based on CGAP's research and highlights the potential and actual impacts of microenterprise fintech models.
Delivering on the Promise of Gender Lens Investing (GLI) in Latin America and the Caribbean
This report delves into the growing Gender Lens Investing (GLI) ecosystem in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Harnessing Agriculture Data for Access to Finance
The objective of this study is to explore how to facilitate data-driven financing by consolidating fragmented farmer data into a centralized platform.
Increasing Financial Inclusion in Egypt’s Garment Sector through Responsible Wage Digitalization: Benefits for Workers and Business
This report sets out the results from supporting nine factories in five governorates in Egypt with over 24,000 workers with wage digitalization and enabling workers to access, use and benefit from their accounts.
Responsible Digital Finance Ecosystem (RDFE) : A Conceptual Framework
This RDFE conceptual framework seeks to encourage financial sector authorities, and other key ecosystem actors, to boost financial consumer protection in the digital era with a holistic vision of the ecosystem.
Systemic Implications of Financial Inclusion
This study analyzes the impact of financial inclusion on various bank risk dimensions, including systemic risk, which has been underexplored.
The Microenterprise Mela - Size & Diversity of the Microenterprise Sector in India
This document combines data from the Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises with M-CRIL’s 40+ years of experience studying every aspect of microenterprises in India and in a dozen other countries in Asia as well as to some extent in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa and other countries.
Designing Cash Transfer and Graduation Programs to Support Women’s Economic Activity: Synthesis of Recent Literature
This review summarizes the impact of such interventions as graduation programs and cash transfers, as well as variations in design and delivery, on economic, and non-economic outcomes among female recipients.
Fintech for Women’s Financial Inclusion in Tanzania
This case study shares lessons from from Laina Finance and Mipango Finance in Tanzania.
Literature Review: Micro and Small Enterprise (MSEs’) Financing in Kenya, Uganda and India
The Literature Review delves into the landscape of women-owned nano and micro-enterprises in India, Kenya, and Uganda, summarizing the existing knowledge and gaps, with the aim of unlocking more capital and effectively meeting these enterprises' financial and non-financial needs.