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Due Diligence Guidelines for the Review of Microcredit Loan Portfolios
These guidelines help analysts evaluate the accuracy of accounting and performance reports about an MFI's portfolio, and the MFI’s compliance with its own portfolio management policies.Publication
Improving Effectiveness from Within: SmartAid for Microfinance Index
The SmartAid for Microfinance Index is an innovative tool that measures one part of the effectiveness equation: funders’ internal management systems.Publication
Window on the Unbanked: Mobile Money in the Philippines
This Brief, a joint effort of CGAP and the GSM Association, discusses the results of the first study on mobile money and the unbanked—those without access to formal financial services—estimated to be almost 4 billion worldwide.Publication
Banking the Poor via G2P Payments
In this Focus Note, we look at government-to-person (G2P) payments, which include social transfers as well as wage and pension payments. With appropriate experimentation, these payments have the potential to become a vehicle for extending financial inclusion and improving the welfare of poor people.Publication
Creating Pathways for the Poorest
This Brief discusses early lessons from the implementation of the graduation model.Publication
Branchless Banking and Consumer Protection in Brazil
As part of its Global Policy Initiative, CGAP partnered with the Central Bank of Brazil in late 2008, to learn more about the issues and trends in consumer relations when financial services are delivered through branchless banking. This report highlights some of our findings.Publication
CGAP Consumer Protection Policy Diagnostic Report: Malaysia
CGAP conducted a pilot policy diagnostic mission in Malaysia in May 2009 to assess the Malaysian consumer protection policy environment for low-income and/or inexperienced customers.Publication
Scenarios for Branchless Banking in 2020
The growing use of branchless banking channels over the coming years is inevitable in most countries. But it’s far less certain whether large numbers of the unbanked poor will use these alternative channels for financial services beyond payments, such as savings and credit.Publication
Financial Access 2009
Financial Access 2009 reports on new data from a survey of financial regulators in 139 countries. It is intended for a broad audience of policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and multilateral and bilateral investors.Publication