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Rural Finance and Investment Insights: January 2023
Note from the editor
Happy 2023! We trust you had a wonderful time with your friends and family during the festive season.
We’re excited to get back to work and can’t wait to share the latest knowledge, products and events happening in the Rural and Agricultural Finance world. We hope it will continue bringing inspiration, innovations, and inclusion to our work.
Highlights of the month
Check Your Bias! A Field Guide for Lenders
This practical field guide walks executives and data scientists alike through recommendations for ensuring that revised and new credit scoring methods are not unintentionally excluding women. It combines academic work on bias detection with practical experience analyzing administrative data from real lenders working to increase financial inclusion around the world.
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Closing the Financial Inclusion Gender Gap During the Crisis and Afterwards
This report explores how some financial institutions and central banks have managed to protect and promote women’s financial inclusion and effectively apply it as part of a crisis response toolbox against the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Global COVID-19 Fintech Market Impact and Industry Resilience Study
The study provided a snapshot of how Covid-19 had impacted Fintech market dynamics, key performance indicators, products and service offerings, and how fintech firms coped with the initial market shocks and operational challenges.
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The Promise of Fintech for Micro and Small Enterprises
This study highlights technological trends and fintech business models with high potential to reach underserved MSEs with improved and responsible financial services. The goal is to help readers identify and understand the innovative firms and technologies that may define the MSE finance ecosystem in the coming years.
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Can Platforms Improve Financial Inclusion for Women?
Library
- The Financial Inclusion of Forcibly Displaced Women
- Enhancing identity verification for refugees in Uganda
- Implementation Guide for the G20 High-Level Principles for Digital Financial Inclusion
- Insurance regulation and innovation: An assessment of 8 African insurance markets
- Case Study: Innovating for inclusive insurance targeting women customers – involving insurance supervisors in the process
- Check Your Bias: Gender Bias Scorecard for Lenders
- Check Your Bias! A Field Guide for Lenders
- The Promise of Fintech for Micro and Small Enterprises
- Closing the Financial Inclusion Gender Gap During the Crisis and Afterwards
- The Global COVID-19 Fintech Market Impact and Industry Resilience Study
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