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.
To innovate, we should seek out the small changes that emerge from the data and inspect all of microfinance’s varied effects – not just the average impacts on poverty.
Opening accounts and issuing cards create numbers but amount to little.
What forms of social protection are developing countries delivering to their poor citizens, and how they be optimized?