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Rural Finance and Investment Insights: August 2022
Note from the editor
Most of us may feel the heatwave and hotter-than-ever weather in the Northern Hemisphere this year; the climate shocks, together with conflict, economic shocks and the lingering impacts of COVID-19, have pushed millions of people in countries across the world into poverty and hunger.
This month’s highlight includes innovative examples of improving access to inclusive financial services. We hope it inspires the rural finance community to enable more small-scale producers to obtain the financial resources needed to sustain agri-value chain production and soften the looming food crises.
Highlights of the month
Index insurance best practices for insurance regulators and practitioners in the Pacific Island countries
This publication shares best practice regulatory guidelines as a step in the right direction to better regulating and encouraging index insurance-based solutions to build the capacities of insurance supervisors and regulators to create enabling market conditions for successful inclusive insurance interventions.
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Banking in Layers: Five Cases to Illustrate How the Market Structure for Financial Services is Evolving
This working paper explores the market-level modularization of financial services by studying the illustrative examples of emerging new models, how they are coming about, and what they mean for the financial inclusion of low-income people in emerging markets and developing economies.
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Policy Catalogue: Women-led MSME Access to Financing
Challenges women-owned MSMEs face compared to men-owned enterprises are discriminating legal environments, unwritten social and cultural norms, lack of awareness about legal rights and so on. This case study provides an overview of policies and initiatives developed to facilitate and develop access to finance for women-owned/led MSMEs.
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ILO Social Finance Annual Report 2021
The report highlights the achievements of the Social Finance Programme over the past year. The report covers developments in Social Finance’s three streams of work: financial inclusion, impact insurance and sustainable investing.
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Mobile Money Certification: Enabling safer and scalable digital finance ecosystem
Library
- Integrating Gender and Women’s Financial Inclusion into National Strategies
- The GSMA AgriTech Toolkit for the digitisation of agricultural value chains
- Agri-SME Finance: Navigating Volatility in the Wake of the War in Ukraine
- Testing and Scaling Micro-pensions in the Pacific
- Banking-as-a-Service: How it Can Catalyze Financial Inclusion
- CLIMATE RESILIENT AND AGRI-FINANCE: Conference Proceeds and Background Reader
- ILO Social Finance Annual Report 2021
- Policy Catalogue: Women-led MSME Access to Financing
- Banking in Layers: Five Cases to Illustrate How the Market Structure for Financial Services is Evolving
- Index insurance best practices for insurance regulators and practitioners in the Pacific Island countries
Learning
Events