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Exploring Blockchain Applications to Agricultural Finance
Learn about how distributed ledger technologies can be applied to agricultural finance in developing countries.Video
Behavioral Research: The Secret Ingredient for Consumer Protection Policy
A video and training modules to give policy makers insights into consumer and business behavior and help them craft more effective policies and regulations.Publication
Building Inclusive Payment Ecosystems in Tanzania and Ghana
Across Sub-Saharan Africa, new success stories are playing out, yet little is understood about the approaches many countries in the region have taken to develop inclusive payment ecosystems. CGAP set out to examine pathways to inclusive payment ecosystems in two Sub-Saharan African countries, Tanzania and Ghana, to learn from their experiences.Publication
Digitizing Agricultural Payments: Uganda's Coffee Value Chain
This is the story of how the United Nations Mobile Money for the Poor in Uganda worked with a coffee exporter to digitize one of the country’s most important cash crops. Learn about the dynamics of digitizing agricultural value chains and how organizations from different sectors worked to digitize Uganda’s coffee value chain.Publication
Basic Regulatory Enablers for Digital Financial Services
CGAP shows how an enabling regulatory framework that is based on four enablers has contributed to advancing digital financial services in 10 countries.Publication
Female Smallholders in the Financial Inclusion Agenda
This Brief explores the gender gap in financial inclusion among smallholder families in Tanzania and Mozambique through unique survey data that allow for a nationally representative look at smallholders.Publication
New Insights on Women’s Mobile Phone Ownership
New data show that 81 percent of women worldwide own a mobile phone. Although large gender gaps in mobile phone ownership persist in certain countries, mobile phones are more ubiquitous among women than are financial accounts.Slide Deck