This blog series is an accompaniment to the CGAP and UNSGSA paper “Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: the Role of Financial Inclusion.” The series is meant to deepen and broaden the discussion started in the paper on how financial…
The Global Findex is the world's most comprehensive data set on financial inclusion. Launched with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and published every three years, it consists of nationally representative surveys of roughly 150,…
This blog series shares insights on crosscutting topics addressed in "Global Standard-Setting Bodies and Financial Inclusion: The Evolving Landscape," the new 2016 White Paper published by the Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI),…
What is the current landscape of financial inclusion funding, and what can we learn from the global trends? This blog series explores the data from the 2015 CGAP Funders Survey, completed in partnership with MIX.
The 2014 Global Findex measured great progress toward financial inclusion globally. The number of people worldwide having an account grew by 700 million between 2011 and 2014. In 2011, 2.5 billion adults were unbanked. In 2014, 2 billion adults…
Pioneered by BRAC in Bangladesh, the Graduation Approach aims to move people out of extreme poverty and into sustainable livelihoods. It has been characterized from the outset by its emphasis on innovation, rigorous evaluation and knowledge exchange…
