There is growing evidence that appropriate financial services have substantial benefits for
consumers, especially women and poor adults. This paper provides an overview of financial …

Impact investing (II) aims to achieve intentional social impact in addition to financial return.
Our systematic literature review of 104 articles finds that the growing academic literature on …

Although theory suggests that financial market imperfections–mainly information
asymmetries, market segmentation and transaction costs–prevent poor people from …

Financial inclusion has gone beyond the rhetoric surrounding social development and
financial stability, but also expanding into pathos of arbitrage benefits made from cheap …

Many policies attempt to help extremely poor households build sustainable sources of
income. Although economic interventions have predominated historically,, psychosocial …

This study examines the effects of financial literacy on financial inclusion and savings
behavior in Laos. Compared to previous literature, we use a broader definition of financial …

This study examines the effects of financial inclusion on energy poverty using the 2018
Turkish Household Budget and Consumption Expenditure Surveys. The study adopts three …

Mobile money, a service that allows monetary value to be stored on a mobile phone and
sent to other users via text messages, has been adopted by the vast majority of Kenyan …

Developing country lenders are taking advantage of fintech tools to create fully digital loans
on mobile phones. Using administrative and survey data, we study the take up and impacts …

There are two broad views as to why people stay poor. One emphasizes differences in
fundamentals, such as ability, talent, or motivation. The poverty traps view emphasizes …