Technology
Digital Public Infrastructure for the Developing World
The “India Stack” provides a model for how developing economies can empower informal business and drive inclusive growth.
Tag: Banking
Human Rights
A Bank of Their Own
Shunned by traditional financial systems, sex workers in Asia’s largest red-light district started their own bank. Now it is empowering other marginalized groups.
Excerpt
Economic Development
Leaving Money on the Table
An excerpt from There’s Nothing Micro about a Billion Women on how financial service providers can reduce inequality and build a more inclusive world by better serving women customers.
Technology
Working Toward Financial Inclusion With Blockchain
Four ways blockchain technology is beginning to help people in countries such as Kenya and Argentina build more resilient and prosperous lives through greater access to financial services.
Scaling
Scaling Community Finance to Fill a Growing Market Gap
New public awareness of how the traditional financial system fails small businesses creates an opportunity to build models that connect entrepreneurs with the capital they need to recover, grow, and thrive—and that drive a more equitable and inclusive economy.
Technology
Bank You
BanQu is the world’s first non-cryptocurrency blockchain app to help the world’s poorest people establish a verifiable economic identity. A Field Report from the Summer 2020 issue.