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Blog Series

Why Information is Critical to Financial Inclusion

Information is a key component of any functional market: quality information can provide the necessary incentives to market actors to enter a market, expand offerings, and innovate. Conversely, the lack of reliable quality information can lead to thin or absent markets, which is the case today with financial service markets that fail to serve the poor and low-income populations.

This blog series is designed to help donors working on financial inclusion explore and better understand the role of information in spurring growth and innovation in financial markets for the poor. In the following weeks, the blogs in this series will illustrate how a funder or facilitator can effectively intervene at the market level, drawing on real world examples of successful and unsuccessful efforts to build financially inclusive markets through improving information collection and analysis and information flows.

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31 March 2016

Addressing Information Gaps: What Can Donors Do?

In a market, less information equals more risk, to both providers and consumers. Donors can play a role in closing information gaps and changing perceptions of risk. What types of information are relevant? How does information alter incentives?
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17 March 2016

Big Data for Good: How Impartial Institutions can Contribute

Call detail records (CDRs) are enormous datasets, easily comprised of a few billion data points. They hold all of the information on how, when, and where customers use their mobile phones. Why should international organizations be paying attention?
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03 March 2016

Data, Information and Government’s Feedback Loop

Governments collect data for many reasons. Making this data publicly accessible has the potential to encourage innovation.
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16 February 2016

What Information Do Customers Need to Make Informed Decisions?

We know more today than every before about how customers use financial services. But we still don’t know enough about what information customers access about products they are considering, and how this informs their financial decisions.
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18 December 2015

Why do Many Data Solutions Fail to Meet Expectations?

2015 saw a shift in the data and information solutions built to serve the microfinance industry. Many of these solutions failed to meet the expectations of their founders and were shut down or scaled back.
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11 December 2015

Crowdsourcing at Work: Mapping Financial Access in Uganda

Dynamic, rapidly changing agent networks translate to a need for sophisticate, real-time location data and analysis tools. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is initiating a pilot program in Uganda to crowdsource data on financial services available in Uganda.

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