Sukhwinder Arora

Sukhwinder Arora is advisor for the Savings at the Frontier Programme, a $17.6 million partnership between Oxford Policy Management and Mastercard Foundation. He was closely involved in the initial program design and led the Savings at the Frontier team from 2015 to 2019.

By Sukhwinder Arora

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Finance Fit for Opportunities and Shocks: What Helps Poor Clients Most

To better understand the impact of financial services on people's lives, providers will need to invest in deeper customer research with the help of the broader financial inclusion community.
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How to Measure Results of Financial Sector Development Programs

No single methodology is likely to respond to all the measurement challenges that exist. However, a combination of methods and mindsets may collectively help provide a credible narrative for how a financial market changed and why.
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Why And How Should We Measure Progress In Market Development?

With increasing scrutiny of aid budgets in donor countries, the pressures to prove impact of development programs are higher than ever before. It is relatively easy to assess impacts in a backward-looking fashion when there is already some record of progress, but measurement challenges are more daunting at the start of a program, when impact assessment needs to be forward-looking.