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.
Measuring the Influence of Financial Services on Reaching the SDGs
Learn about UNCDF Impact Pathways, a tool to measure the influence of digital financial services in reaching the SDGs, in this guest blog.
Financial Inclusion for What?
The global evidence on the impact of financial inclusion consistently shows that poor people use financial services to help them achieve two outcomes that improve their well-being: building resilience and capturing opportunities.
Inclusive Growth vs. Household Finance: A False Choice
What’s better for inclusive economic growth: expanding access to financial services among individuals or businesses? Emerging evidence suggests they’re both critical.
3 Ways to Deepen Our Understanding of Women’s Financial Inclusion
Researchers can shed new light on the impact of financial inclusion on women by applying three principles in their work.
Looking Beyond the Average Impact of Financial Inclusion
CGAP's review of over 100 financial inclusion impact studies shows only 1 in 5 offers important contextual information to explain results. Greater focus on context is needed to understand impact.
Is Poverty Reduction the Right Outcome for Financial Services?
Today, the global development community generally accepts that poverty is more than just a lack of income. What do multidimensional concepts of poverty mean for those who see poverty reduction as the ultimate goal of financial inclusion?
Financial Health and the Impact of Financial Inclusion
Financial health has emerged as a useful framework for talking about whether financial services improve poor people's ability to manage their financial lives. But how can we understand whether better financial management improves people's well-being?
How Useful Is “Usage” in Measuring Financial Inclusion’s Impact?
Financial account usage rates can tell us a lot about the state of financial inclusion, but high usage shouldn’t be confused with impact on customers’ lives.