Resource Type: Research papers

Akhand Tiwari, Raunak Kapoor, Edward Obiko, Gregory Ilukwe, Manoj Nayak and Zeeshan Ali

Lending to cash-in cash-out (CICO) agents: An untapped frontier in...

Lending to cash-in cash-out (CICO) agents in developing countries remains a vastly underserved market despite...
Nov 1, 2022

Manali Jain, Vishes Jena, Disha Bhavnani, Akshat Pathak, Shweta Menon, Maansi Sharda and Pramiti Lonkar

How digital payments drive financial inclusion in India: Abridged report

India’s digital payments landscape has transformed dramatically over the past five years. This report, published...
Sep 22, 2022

Disha Bhavnani, Manali Jain, Vishes Jena, Akshat Pathak, Shweta Menon and Maansi Sharda

How digital payments drive financial inclusion in India

Digital payments in India have grown phenomenally in the past decade. This report highlights how...
Sep 20, 2022

Abhishek Anand and Raunak Kapoor

Customer-centric and responsible digital credit solutions for urban and rural...

MSC conducted a deep-dive analysis of the digital credit users in India, Indonesia, and Kenya...
Sep 20, 2022

Aakash Mehrotra, Arshi Aadil, Lakshay Jain and Neeraja Sundar

Do conditional cash transfers improve education outcomes? Insights from the...

In 2001, Bangladesh launched a Primary Education Stipend Program (PESP) that provides a conditional cash...
Sep 15, 2022

Rahul Chatterjee, Diana Siddiqui and Pauline Katunyo

Women in open-air and cross-border trade in Kenya: Insights from...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commissioned MSC to conduct an action research program to...
Aug 31, 2022