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An Overview of the G2P Payments Sector in Pakistan

Pakistan is becoming a laboratory for G2P payment innovations. This report by CGAP discusses the G2P payments sector in Pakistan and demonstrates how social transfers can help bring poor people into the formal financial system.

The Jipange KuSave Experiment in Kenya

This Brief highlights the experience of Jipange KuSave, the mobile version of P9 designed to work over the M-PESA system.

Emerging Perspectives on Youth Savings

This Focus Note examines the role of finance in the lives of low-income youth in developing countries.

Supervising Nonbank E-Money Issuers

This Brief addresses the supervision of e-money issuing activities of nonbank e-money issuers.

Financing Small Enterprises

This Focus Note examines the experience and role of MFIs in serving small enterprises.

Can Digital Footprints Lead to Greater Financial Inclusion?

This Brief highlights some early experience on the potential of digital footprints from mobile phone use.

Microfinance Banana Skins 2012

The latest Microfinance Banana Skins ranks the risk perceptions of practitioners and observers of the microfinance sector. Responses this year focused on microfinance institutions' ability to adapt and manage a sound business in such a fast-growing environment.

Interoperability and the Pathways Towards Inclusive Retail Payments in Pakistan

Interoperability of retail payment instruments is not an objective in its own right; rather it is a means of achieving other desirable objectives.

Can Postal Networks Advance Financial Inclusion in the Arab World?

As existing and trusted institutions with large branch networks reaching rural areas, Arab postal networks have the potential to be powerful tools in the fight for greater financial inclusion in the Arab World.

The Pursuit of Complete Financial Inclusion: The KGFS Model in India

This paper explores the KGFS model as it is applied in various parts of India.