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Blog Series

Bangladesh at 50: Reflections on Financial Inclusion

Bangladesh turned 50 in 2021. Over the decades since its independence, the country has made significant progress on many measures of development, among them financial inclusion. Bangladesh offers the financial inclusion community an opportunity to assess the impact of large-scale financial inclusion over a long period of time, going beyond the brief time horizons that often characterize global development. In this blog series, experts who know the country well explore Bangladesh’s financial inclusion journey and the impact it has had on the country’s broader development.

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Blog
07 October 2021

Bangladesh’s COVID-19 Response Is Taking Digital Finance to New Levels

Bangladesh’s policies in response to COVID-19 have enabled more low-income people to benefit from digital financial services.
Woman in Bangladesh carries goat to safety amid flood
Blog
31 August 2021

Cool in Crisis: How Bangladeshi MFIs Stay Resilient

Through flood, drought and famine, Bangladesh's microfinance industry has survived over the decades and continued to serve low-income customers in times of crisis. What has made Bangladeshi microfinance institutions so resilient?
Women in a rural village in Bangladesh
Blog
24 August 2021

Has Microcredit Empowered Women in Bangladesh? Yes, But Not by Itself

Microfinance has contributed to women’s empowerment, but to understand the impact you have to look beyond where many observers have assumed they would find it.
Shalini and her youngest daughter are pictured here in 2015. Shalini is currently saving in a deposit pension savings account for her daughter’s wedding.
Blog
17 August 2021

How Bangladesh Democratized Its Savings Culture

Bangladesh may be best known within financial inclusion circles as the birthplace of modern microcredit. But it has also democratized savings by developing formal savings instruments that are used today by many of the country’s poorest households.
Women and children in Sahabatpur village, Bangladesh
Blog
10 August 2021

Bangladesh’s 50 Years: Taking the Long View of Financial Inclusion

Bangladesh turned 50 this year. What does the country's decades-long journey with financial inclusion reveal about how financial inclusion connects to wider development? This post kicks off a new series exploring this question.

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