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Putting Impact Research Into Practice

This blog series focuses on ways in which academic research findings have been used by practitioners and policy makers to increase financial inclusion.

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14 February 2013

Impact Research and the Role of Coaching In Poverty Reduction

Effective coaching–designed to impart basic financial education and livelihood skills– is a critical ingredient of programs aiming to graduate households out of extreme poverty. How can we more effectively train coaches to address differentiated needs? Impact research plays a crucial role in filling this knowledge gap.
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Blog
08 February 2013

Savings: Global Learning For Local Application

What can a study about 1,118 Nepalese women living in slums tell us about rural community savings programs in Colombia? This post explores the relevance of cross-border learning for financial inclusion.
Blog
21 January 2013

Finding Real World Relevance for Microinsurance Research

Without mechanisms like insurance in place to manage the enormous amount of risk in the lives of the poor, hard fought gains against poverty may be wiped out when the inevitable shocks of everyday life occur, be they the death or disability of a breadwinner, sickness, a failed harvest, or the loss of property due to a natural disaster or fire or theft.
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15 January 2013

Academic Research: Get the Word Out

In the financial inclusion world today, there is some healthy debate about the role of research, including the pros and cons of different approaches.  There is great information out there, but academic research might have more impact if more people know about it.
Blog
07 January 2013

Getting The Proof To The Top Of The Pile

Policymakers are swamped. They have a wide range of interest groups talking to them all the time, they have large numbers of papers and emails and phone calls to deal with every day. So if you approach them with a brilliant evaluation that is fifty pages long, complete with graphs and tables and lots of Greek equations, it will go straight to the bottom of the stack. And stay there.
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04 January 2013

What Do Practitioners Think Of Impact Research?

It is exciting to see the body of evidence on the impact of access to finance growing.

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