The loan is intended to boost its services to micro-, small, and medium-sized enterprises – especially in rural areas – to “improve financial inclusion and contribute to Kazakhstan’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.”

This loan is ADB's first intervention in Kazakhstan's financial sector in several years. It will support KMF's efforts to improve financial inclusion and contribute to Kazakhstan's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

This  report  focuses on the flows of remittances received by each country and sub-region in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2021 and hopes to provide input for decision-making on migration and remittances. 

Representatives from Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia offer their perspectives on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the personal financial situation of financial consumers in the Asia-Pacific region.

This publication uncovers consumer risks arising from the rapidly digitizing G2P programs aimed at the most vulnerable in society, most of whom have no prior experience with digital technology or the formal financial system.

Digital technology at the heart of the strategic orientations of microfinance institutions.

Investment will increase access to credit for retail and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with specific focus on women entrepreneurs.

The investment will increase Omni's capacity to assist their existing as well as new clients, thus supporting the private sector's recovery in the wake of the pandemic.

This publication compiles and analyses data to better understand the effects of COVID-19 on supported microfinance institutions and their clients.