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Podcast

What's Next for Financial Inclusion? Unpacking Findex 2025

Join top voices in the financial inclusion space to unpack the latest Findex findings and map the path forward toward development outcomes.

Paper

Inclusive Pensions for an Aging World: Evidence and Strategies for Engaging Informal Workers

This Working Paper reviews how different countries have designed pension schemes for informal workers. It focuses on contributory schemes for the “missing middle”: informal workers with sufficiently stable incomes to save for old age but who lack access to suitable pension options.
Paper

Regulating Financial Innovation: What Does It Take?

This working paper introduces vision-guided regulation as an approach that helps financial sector regulators harness innovation for inclusive finance.
Paper

Pathways to Financial Inclusion for Young Women: Opportunities for Financial Service Providers and Funders

Based on research in Ghana and Tanzania, this Focus Note presents key opportunities for FSPs and funders to meet the real financial needs of young women aged 15-24.
Paper

Competition for Financial Inclusion: A Conceptual Framework

The insights in this paper point to the importance of financial authorities applying an intentional competition lens and offer an analytical framework to help deliver more inclusive and resilient financial systems.
Paper

Building Rural Women’s Climate Resilience: Seven Business Drivers Delivering Commercial Value

As climate pressures rise, strengthening rural women’s resilience is critical for their livelihoods and for the long-term viability of the rural businesses that serve them. This paper identifies seven practical business drivers that simultaneously strengthen rural women’s climate resilience and business performance.

Paper

From Safety Net to Springboard

This paper explores how integrating inclusive finance with social protection can drive climate action and build resilience.

Guide / Toolkit

From Insights to Interventions: Addressing Gender Norms in Women’s Financial Inclusion

This Guide introduces a structured, field-tested approach to uncover how gender norms shape market actor behavior, to help development actors move beyond symptoms to address the root causes of women’s financial exclusion.

Guide / Toolkit

Diagnosing Gender Norms in the Financial Market System: A Practical Guide

This Diagnostic Guide helps development actors move beyond symptoms to address the root causes of women’s financial exclusion.

Paper

Enhancing Food Security Through Finance-Enabled Food Systems Transformation

This working paper examines how inclusive finance can address today's evolving food security challenges by unlocking targeted investments in high-impact agricultural value chains that best promote nutritional, sustainability, and livelihood outcomes through agricultural technology (agtech) adoption.