financial inclusion
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Mobile Money: Issue 2
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Can fintech help migrants make better remittance decisions and improve financial inclusion?
Fintech has the potential to enhance financial inclusion and welfare for low-income migrants, but its benefits may be limited for migrants with lower financial literacy.
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Mobile money markets and financial inclusion in Africa
How did adopting platform "interoperability" - a policy that promotes transactions and competition across operators - impact mobile money users in Africa?
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The impact of mobile money on poor rural households: Evidence from Uganda
Mobile money agents need additional support to transform lives in poor rural areas
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Designing financial services and social protection programmes to enhance women’s economic empowerment
Financial inclusion programmes must be designed to ensure that women can act with financial independence
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The impact of digital credit in low-income countries
Digital credit does not appear to systematically improve lives, while the lack of transparency raises serious concerns about predatory lending
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Impact of access to banks on development: Evidence from Brazil
A financial development programme showed strong positive effects from expanding financial access to underbanked cities
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Learning to navigate a new financial technology: Evidence from Bangladesh
How do consumers learn to navigate a new financial technology? An experiment with workers from Bangladesh suggests that experience makes a difference
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Is mobile money changing the rural landscape? Evidence from Mozambique
The introduction of mobile money promoted migration out of rural areas by easing long-distance transfers and increasing resilience