Theme: Private Sector Development
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on MSMEs: Indonesia report
The COVID-19 crisis has proven devastating for MSMEs in Indonesia, which have seen their revenues reduce to almost half. Our report analyzes the economic consequences of the pandemic on MSMEs, highlights their coping strategies, and provides policy recommendations to help them recover.
Jun 16, 2020
Alfa Pelupessy, Astri Sri Sulastri, Gloria Sinaga and Raunak Kapoor
Competition in Tanzania – Fact or Fable?
Tanzania is often cited as a model competitive market in digital financial services (DFS) with the three major providers healthily competing against one another. However, the story is a bit more complicated than that, and to really understand market dynamics in Tanzania it helps to examine competition from a few angles, and on a more […]
Jul 4, 2014
Harnessing the potential of Aadhaar via digitisation
This blog recounts the learning from pilot programmes around Aadhaar enabled systems that has great potential, but to scale up, many barriers remain to be addressed.
Sep 27, 2013
In this blog, Amir Hamza shares the experiences on how the Aadhaar story is unfolding in East Godvari, India. Its implementation challenges, learning and impact.
Sep 27, 2013
Reducing the vulnerability of grass-roots people in Papua New Guinea: Delivering microinsurance in a particularly challenging environment
PNG is a challenging country to offer any financial service, let alone insurance. Oliver Ullrich shares his experience of delivering microinsurance in a particularly challenging environment.
Sep 26, 2013