Tag: Digital financial services

Creative economies as a gateway to pro-poor tourism in India

The paper discusses the role that creative economies can play in transforming the tourist regions as engines of youth employment growth and upskilling.

Jul 4, 2019

Abhishek Gupta, Akhand Tiwari and Bhavana Srivastava

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Financial Inclusion of low income earners- A Fintech success story

Bernie Akporiaye launched MaTontine in 2015. His objective was to provide a digital financial services platform so as to unlock access to financial services for the financially excluded in Africa. MaTontine goes back to a system used all over Africa called Tontines in Francophone Africa and sometimes called saving circles in other parts of Africa. Read more about this success story.

May 24, 2019

Nadine Zoro and Melissa Rousset

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Gender centrality of mobile financial services in Bangladesh

This consumer behavior research aims to investigate why this is so, examining the gender centrality in digital financial services (DFS) in Bangladesh. The study focused only on mobile financial services as the most prevalent form of DFS in Bangladesh.

Apr 15, 2019

Akhand Tiwari, Bhavana Srivastava, Rahul Chatterjee and Ana Klincic Andrews

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Over the counter transactions: A threat to or a facilitator for digital finance ecosystems?

This report provides an analytical perspective on the pros and cons of mobile money over the counter (OTC) transactions.

Apr 1, 2019

Graham Wright and Anup Singh

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Face-to-face network specialists: Helping institutions better bring digital finance to the unreached Part 2

In this blog, we provide a high-level outline of six options to support the impact of Agent Network Management Companies (ANMCs).

Feb 12, 2019

Chris Wolff, Prabir Barooah and Graham Wright

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Agent Network Accelerator Research- Democratic Republic of the Congo

The population of the DRC is extremely dispersed in a country with low levels of education, a history of financial shocks, conflict and poor infrastructure. A recent study has shown that, even excluding the population in deep rural areas, only 2.3 million (12%) of the adult population have a bank account [1] . Despite these challenges, the number of […]

Feb 4, 2019

Djitaba Sackho-Patel, Nancy Kiarie and Jenny Frydrych

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