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Janalakshmi, an urban microfinance organization based in Bangalore, embarked on a project to reshape their business around the lives of poor clients.
As many as 500 million people in India have no form of official identification, making it difficult for them to access all kinds of public services.
H.M. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands speaks about the effectiveness of the Graduation Approach as a way to help people escape extreme poverty.
Digital Finance Plus is the use of mobile money and branchless banking to make basic, essential services and utilities more accessible for the poor.
CGAP is a global think tank housed at the World Bank that works to advance financial inclusion to improve the lives of the poor.
Telecomm, the state-run telegraph agency in Mexico, aims to bring basic mobile services and bank accounts to the financial underserved community Santiago Nuyoó.
Telecomm, the state-run telegraph agency in Mexico, aims to bring basic mobile services and bank accounts to the underserved community of Santiago Nuyoó.
An enlightened approach to financial regulation is opening up innovative opportunities for poor and low-income customers in the Philippines.
CGAP talks with 5 low income Mexicans about their day-to-day money management to better understand the kinds of financial products that would meet their needs.
Mexican banking meets California design in this film about creating a savings product for low income Mexicans.
Mexican banking meets California design in this film about creating a savings product for low income Mexicans.
Chemen Lavi Miyò is a program in Haiti testing a new approach to helping people living in extreme poverty to transition to a sustainable way of life.
This 6-minute film follows case workers in Haiti's central plateau as they work with new members of a program to reach people living in extreme poverty.
Filmed in 2009, this video shows how mobile money is changing the face of banking in Kenya.
In a speech at the 2013 CGAP Annual Meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Queen Máxima urged CGAP and its members to focus on two important priorities for the ...
Ramesh Ramanathan, Chair of Janalakshmi, a microfinance institution in India talks about the state of financial inclusion in India and the huge market that exis...
Nick Hughes, one of the original team who created M-PESA, talks about how the mobile money transfer platform emerged and quickly took off in Kenya...
Vijay Mahajan, Chair of BASIX, a livelihoods promotion organization, discusses the latest developments in financial inclusion in India...
Economist Narda Sotomayor describes the measures that Peru's Superintendency of Banks has taken to promote financial inclusion...
Daphne Motsepe, a former executive with Absa Bank in South Africa, talks about progress in financial inclusion in recent years in South Africa led by the banks...
Nancy Lee, Thomas Miller, and Sergio Navajas, of the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), discuss how the SmartAid process has helped their agency improve their ...
Marc Bichler, Henri Dommel, John Tucker, and Hanadi Tutunji, of UNCDF, discuss their organization's experience with SmartAid.
Helping young people to realize their ambition, to give them confidence, to create businesses and to create employment has a cumulative effect, says Andrew Deve...
Adolfo Brizzi, Emily Coleman, Jonathan Agwe, Michael Hamp, and Francesco Rispoli, of IFAD, discuss how the SmartAid process has positively impacted their organi...
“In countries like Bangladesh and India right now we talk about what is called the demographic dividend,” says Shameran Abed, Microfinance Program Manager of BR...
“Regardless of your affiliation, whether you are within a political party, Islamic group or whatever, the key word is the youth, you have to be thinking about w...
Only two out of every 10 households in the Philippines have bank accounts...
In this interview CGAP CEO Tilman Ehrbeck talks about the global momentum behind financial inclusion and the priorities that are needed to drive financial inclu...
Winners and Finalists from the 2012 CGAP Photo Contest. Over 2,500 submissions were receieved from 80 countries.
Winners and Finalists from the 2011 CGAP Photo Contest. Over 2,000 submissions were receieved from 70 countries.
Michael Rizzo, Digital Media Coordinator at CGAP, was in Peru to document two days of visits to several of the communities participaing in the CGAP-Ford Foundat...
