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?

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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.

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Insights into ways microfinance can be refined to strengthen its beneficial impact for the world’s poorest women. 

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EPoD conducted a series of activities to advance the use of data and evidence in policymaking across South Asia.

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Microlending is booming once again. If it is to help people out of poverty, though, it needs to work much better.