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Resource Type: Research papers

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Is access to smartphones essential to bridge the digital divide?

Leveraging potential of agents and merchants to improve customer onboarding and customer experience and increased...
Jan 28, 2022
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The resilience of bank agents in Bangladesh through the COVID-19...

Many banking agents struggled to stay afloat when the Bangladesh authority announced lockdowns at the...
Jan 28, 2022

Samveet Sahoo and Anik Muntasir Chowdhury

COVID-19 and FinTechs in Bangladesh—impact and resilience

The COVID-19 pandemic had a pronounced effect on FinTechs in Bangladesh. MSC sought to evaluate...
Nov 22, 2021

Abhishek Jain, Nikita Dhingra, Noel Johns and Ritesh Rautela

A review of the effectiveness of India’s Direct Benefit Transfer...

This paper examines the use of existing cash transfer programs and the payment infrastructure used...
Oct 13, 2021

Kritika Shukla and Vedika Tibrewala

Efficacy of MGNREGA in mitigating the loss in income and...

This paper evaluates the efficacy of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)...
Oct 7, 2021

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Making Elephants Dance – A case study on shared agent...

Based on research commissioned by FSD Uganda, this report documents the need for shared agent...
Sep 14, 2021
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