Microfinance in the Arab World: Growing, Evolving and Building Resilience
Five key takeaways from the 2022 Sanabel Conference on the state of financial inclusion in the region
Rising Interest Rates, a Strong Dollar and Global Inflation Could Burden MFIs
How will the evolving global macroeconomic situation impact the microfinance sector in emerging markets? Financial inclusion consultant Erik Geurts shared his thoughts on a recent Let's Talk Microfinance podcast.
Artificial Intelligence in Financial Inclusion: How Should Supervisors Respond?
The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the financial sector is spreading exponentially across advanced and emerging economies. What are the risks and opportunities presented by these innovations?
Measuring Inclusive Green Finance
Roadmap for Inclusive Green Finance Implementation
This Special Report identifies inclusive green finance (IGF) as a subset of sustainable finance, shows that a successful IGF framework rests on six building blocks, and identifies five policy tools that further the framework.
Agent Networks at the Last Mile: Implications for Policy Makers
This reading deck for policy makers shows how rural Cash-in/Cash-out (CICO) agent network expansion is key to ensuring poor people can capture the benefits of digital financial ecosystems and presents a set of policies that have been effective in enabling rural CICO in a way that benefits vulnerable segments.
Agent Networks at the Last Mile: Implications for Financial Regulators
This reading deck for regulators shows how expanding rural Cash-in/Cash-out (CICO) agent networks is key to ensuring more inclusive digital financial systems, illustrates industry innovations that are making rural CICO more viable and presents a set of regulatory considerations that can enable such innovations within a stable financial system.
Central Bank Digital Currency – An Opportunity for Financial Inclusion in Developing and Emerging Economies?
This special report on central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and financial inclusion looks at the current state of financial inclusion across different developing and emerging economies, and identifies the main use cases CBDC can contribute to.
Leveraging Digital Financial Services to Advance Inclusive Green Finance Policies
This report shows how digital payment platforms, digital financial products, and enabling policies can make a difference in helping the most vulnerable populations adapt to and mitigate climate risk and environmental degradation.
Consumer Advisory Panels
This paper synthesizes desk research and in-depth discussions with consumer advisory panel representatives around the world.