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Rural Finance and Investment Insights: January 2021
Note from the editor
We hope that all of you spent a peaceful and lovely holiday with your loved ones, refreshed and recharged.
Starting the first Newsletter of 2021, we hope this latest Rural and Agricultural finance knowledge will brighten you up, as the fresh start of 2021 does.
Highlights of the month
Digital finance and inclusion in the time of COVID-19
The aim of this study is to illustrate the opportunities and risks associated with the surge in uptake and use of digital financial service, providing ideas on how to leverage the paradigm changes affecting the overall approach and perspective towards digital financial services
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Agent Network Journeys Toward the Last Mile: A Cross-Country Perspective
Extending rural CICO agent networks is critical to further financial inclusion. This study reveals three distinct journeys country stakeholders have taken to extend the reach and quality of rural agent networks.
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The small livestock advantage: A sustainable entry point for addressing SDGs in rural areas
The Case Studies section features a review of five relevant projects from IFAD’s portfolio that provide concrete examples of how IFAD is working to support small-scale farmers.
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Strengthening Financial Resilience Among Rural and Refugee Communities in Rwanda
This case study highlights the achievements of REFAD model that strengthens VSLAs to provide rural and refugee communities with transformational, convenient, and affordable financial services in Rwanda.
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Leveraging the Use of Mobile Tech to Save for Retirement in Solomon Islands
Library
- Interoperability and Digital Finance: Emerging Guidance for Funders
- Building Faster Better: A Guide to Inclusive Instant Payment Systems
- Agent Network Journeys Toward the Last Mile: A Cross-Country Perspective
- Digital data sharing in agricualture
- Digital Finance and Financial Literacy: An Empirical Investigation of Chinese Households
- Leveraging SME Finance through Value Chains in CAREC Landlocked Countries
- The small livestock advantage: A sustainable entry point for addressing SDGs in rural areas
- Digital Community Entrepreneurs – Going the Extra Mile to Close the Digital Gap in Rural Uganda
- Digitalizing Rural Financial Ecosystems – Journey and Learnings from Digitalization of Dairy Value Chain in Nepal
- Strengthening Financial Resilience Among Rural and Refugee Communities in Rwanda
- Measuring Progress 2020: Financial Inclusion in selected ASEAN countries
- Promoting Inclusive Green Finance Initiative and Policies
- Digital finance and inclusion in the time of COVID-19
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