A curated collection on financial inclusion in Africa.
Books, research and reports across DFS, finance, development, agritech, edtech, gender, livelihoods, water and sanitation, climate — everything that bears on inclusion.
The Global Findex Database 2021
The world's most comprehensive data on financial inclusion, including how adults save, borrow, make payments and manage risk.
Poor Economics
Rethinking the way the global poor live, save and use financial services through rigorous field evidence.
Portfolios of the Poor
How the world's poor live on $2 a day — the financial diaries that reshaped inclusive finance.
State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money
The benchmark annual report on mobile money adoption, usage and ecosystem growth in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Digital Finance for Women's Economic Empowerment
How well-designed DFS products narrow the gender gap in financial access across LDCs.
Climate Risk and Inclusive Finance in Africa
Building climate-resilient financial systems for smallholders and informal workers.
Digitising Savings Groups: A Practitioner's Guide
Field-tested guidance on integrating VSLAs with mobile money, e-recordkeeping and linkage banking.
AgriTech in Africa: A Landscape Review
Maps the agritech ecosystem and its intersection with smallholder finance, insurance and market access.
Financial Literacy on Feature Phones
Evidence on chat-based learning to drive uptake of formal savings and credit among low-income users.
Water, Sanitation and Microfinance
How small loans for water and sanitation infrastructure unlock public health and household economics.
Africa Pulse
Twice-yearly analysis of the near-term macroeconomic outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa.
Gender and Finance Toolkit
Practical guidance for regulators on closing the gender gap in financial inclusion.
Pathways to Prosperity: Rural & Agricultural Finance
A roadmap for closing the $170B financing gap for smallholder farmers globally.
Why Nations Fail
Institutions, inclusion and the deep drivers of prosperity — essential reading for development thinkers.
National Financial Inclusion Strategies: Current State of Practice
How governments across Africa are designing, coordinating and implementing national financial inclusion strategies — with practical lessons for regulators and policymakers.
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