Financial Inclusion
Providing bank accounts, credit, and other financial products to disadvantaged populations can help reduce poverty – but it’s expensive. Can we design affordable and sustainable ways to expand financial access to all?
Providing bank accounts, credit, and other financial products to disadvantaged populations can help reduce poverty – but it’s expensive. Can we design affordable and sustainable ways to expand financial access to all?
Highlights
News, events, and insights from from our policy-research engagements on financial inclusion.
Blockchain, AI, and other new technology can enhance banking for the poor, but only if it suits customer needs.
Female entrepreneurs may invest in their husband's household business rather than their own.
In an interview with Melinda Gates, Rohini Pande describes her work on how access to financial services affects women's work lives.
Projects
Providing a poor rural woman with her own bank account and training her in its use impacts more than just her balance.
A large-scale examination of the impacts of the expansion of financial services in southern India.
Research in Kolkata sheds light on the effect of flexible repayment terms for microfinance clients
Individual borrowing history can help evaluate risk for entrepreneurs applying for small business loans.