Anne Marie van Swinderen

Anne is the Managing Director at L-IFT, Netherlands. L-IFT is a social enterprise that specializes in Low-Income Financial Transformation.

Anne is the Managing Director at L-IFT, Netherlands. She has over 25 years of experience in Bangladesh, Zambia, Vietnam, Angola, Bolivia, and Colombia. Her specializations include demand-side research, impact measurement, monitoring and evaluation, mobile banking, product development, and informal savings groups.

Posts by Anne Marie van Swinderen

Volatility and resilience: Lessons from the corner shop diaries research in Nigeria

This blog provides three key insights into the financial lives of small corner shop owners in Nigeria. It also offers a glimpse into the strategies they adopted to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 paradox: What made a small corner shop in Uganda, which was allowed to operate during the pandemic, close down?

Using insights from the daily financial transaction data of a small corner shop in Uganda, this blog explores the causes that forced the shop to shut down, despite being allowed to operate during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Corner Shop Diaries project: How small businesses in developing countries coped with the pandemic, helped the neighborhood to survive the lockdown, and embarked on the challenging journey to recovery

This blog offers a glimpse into the Corner Shop Diaries research in eight countries across Asia and Africa.

Agent Network Accelerator Survey – Uganda Country Report 2013

The report paints a picture of the stage of maturity of the market there, focusing on the operational factors of success, and residual challenges the country still faces.