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A Review of ‘The Case for Social Investment in Microcredit’ by Tim Ogden

A Review of The Case for Social Investment in Microcredit by Tim Ogden

Microfinance is a form of microcredit that provides loans and financial support to various small enterprises and businesses for their growth and development. It has been proved in a study that around 1.6 billion people around the world are unbanked and without essential financial services. Most of the people falling in this group mostly belong … Read more

Increasing Poverty Outreach: Suggestions from Recent Research

Increasing Poverty Outreach Suggestions from Recent Research

Microfinance is failing on many counts. A more comprehensive method must be developed for better financial inclusion. Latin America has successfully constructed a framework for better financial upliftment and inclusion framework for ushering in an era of prosperity. Collaborating with 41 microfinance institutions, Latin American countries are showing the path as to how outreach programs … Read more

Mobile Financial Services- A Technology Primer and Implications for Financial Inclusion

Mobile Financial Services- A Technology Primer and Implications for Financial Inclusion

We cannot deny the fact that mobiles have completely taken over. Now you can do everything through your phone, starting from watching movies, listening to music, and keeping a track of things to buying things, making payments, sending money, etc. We wake up from our phone’s alarm and sleep at night after scrolling through all … Read more

Why Low-Income Mexicans Don’t Use Formal Savings Products?

Why Aren't People Saving Money in Mexico?

Mexico is a mixed economy developing country. It has a fairly stable economy and unlike other developing countries, over 70% of Mexico’s population falls in the urbanized sector with relatively easier access to physical banks and other financial service providers. Even after having such a huge population in Urban areas, the Mexican population has abstained … Read more

Behavioral Approaches to Product Innovation at the Base of the Pyramid

Behavioral Approaches to Product Innovation at the Base of the Pyramid

The Base of the Pyramid (BOP) is part of the economy that contains lower-income groups, especially, people from rural areas, with the least income. They consist of four billion people in extreme poverty. Various institutions have introduced measures like product innovation, to uplift the condition of the poor and their condition. Most of the big … Read more

BiM – The First Fully-Interoperable Mobile Money Platform: Now Live in Peru

BiM – The First Fully-Interoperable Mobile Money Platform: Now Live in Peru

The Success of Mobile Money platforms in other geographic locations has made Peru launch its mobile money platform Buy it Mobilility (BiM). This platform has around 30 major banking and telecommunication partners. With the help of this, a consumer can send money to a different account in a different bank, or you can send money … Read more

Asset-Based Financing and Flexible Repayment Schedules to Better Serve Africa’s Smallholder Farmers

Asset-Based Financing and Flexible Repayment Schedules to Better Serve Africa’s Smallholder Farmers

Most loan policies are formed in such a way that the needs of low-income people or people with unstable incomes are generally ignored. The loan policies need to be more flexible so that they can be more inclusive and can fulfill everyone’s needs.  When it comes to loans, the biggest problem is the fixed repayment … Read more

Fintech for Financial Inclusion: The Path Forward for Colombia

Fintech for Financial Inclusion The Path Forward for Colombia

Despite the immense technological improvements in various financial sectors around the world in various countries, financial exclusion is still one of the biggest crises in most developing and underdeveloped countries. Due to problems like reachability, illiteracy, and poor income status among various groups of people like women, small-scale farmers, and micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises … Read more

Adventures in Love and Credit Reporting

Adventures in Love and Credit Reporting

You may be wondering from the title what’s love got to do with Credit Reporting. Well, you are not alone in this. But believe me when I say this, in a heightened financially conscious society, things like money gets into everything. In a recent article about dating in The New York Times, a recent study … Read more