Documents & Reports

Moçambique - Projecto de Inclusão e Estabilidade Financeira : Missão de Encerramento - 22 de Abril a 2 de Maio de 2024 (Portuguese)

Relatório Anual da Agência Multilateral de Garantia de Investimentos (MIGA) 2023 (Portuguese)

Celebrating thirty-five years since its founding, in FY23 MIGA issued a record 6.4 billion in new guarantees across forty projects. Through these projects, the Agency remained focused on encouraging private...

Multilateral de Garantía de Inversiones (MIGA) Informe Anual 2023 (Spanish)

Celebrating thirty-five years since its founding, in FY23 MIGA issued a record 6.4 billion in new guarantees across forty projects. Through these projects, the Agency remained focused on encouraging private...

Emerging Market - Banks, Bonds, and Impact : Green Bond Impact Reporting Practices of Emerging Market Financial Institutions (English)

This report analyses the green bond impact reporting practices of emerging markets (EM) financial institutions (FI) issuers. It includes in-depth analysis of issuance, issuers and impact reports and examination...

Financial Inclusion : Lessons from World Bank Group Experience, Fiscal Years 2014–22 (English)

This evaluation explores how and with what effect the World Bank Group has supported financial inclusion for the microenterprises, poor households, women, and other excluded groups. Financial inclusion...

Putting Gig Data to Work - Innovations in Expanding Credit Access (English)

Gig platforms can use work and earnings data to provide meaningful financial services to underserved gig workers. This brief highlights the experience of two industry pioneers, Moove and Karmalife, that...

Financial Services for Gig Workers - Lessons on Getting Design and Delivery Right (English)

Although gig work platforms provide a channel for offering financial services to underserved workers, innovators are realizing that despite their digital skills, the underserved platform-workers segment...

The Setup - Partnerships and Conditions for Offering Financial Services to Gig Workers (English)

The digital rails created by platforms can be a powerful foundation for offering financial services to underserved gig workers, but ensuring the right environmental conditions around digital payments...

Understanding the Unmet Financial Needs and Opportunities of Key Segments in Kenya (English)

Assessing Funder Practices - Emerging Lessons from the Financial Inclusion Navigator (English)

As the world and financial systems are in constant flux, funders need to continuously think about and adapt their roles. Reflecting on who is funding what and where can help funders make informed decisions...

International Finance Corporation Additionality in Middle-Income Countries - An Independent Evaluation (English)

Additionality is a core feature of private sector development finance institutions (DFIs). It is the unique contribution that a DFI or a multilateral/ bilateral bank brings to a private investment project...

CGAP Funder Survey 2021 - Trends in International Funding for Financial Inclusion (English)

International Funders committed an estimated sixty-eight billion for financial inclusion in 2021, with private funding growing more quickly than public funding relative to the previous year, according...

Ethiopia - Public Finance Management Project (English)

Gender Norms in Financial Inclusion - Diagnostic Guidance (English)

The barriers to women’s financial inclusion are inherently complex and multifaceted, ranging from deep-rooted social norms to regulatory hurdles and supply-side challenges. There is growing recognition...

Development Policy Retrospective 2021 : Facing Crisis, Fostering Recovery (English)

This report is the fifth Development Policy Financing (DPF) Retrospective. DPF, one of the Bank’s three complementary financing instruments, is non-earmarked budget financing that supports policy and institutional...

Developing Rural Agent Networks to Advance Digital Financial Inclusion - Emerging Guidance for Funders : Executive Summary (English)

Rural development is central to realizing the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda because nearly eighty percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas. Moreover, rural populations have less...

Chile - Financial Sector Assessment (English)

The Chile FSAP has taken place at a critical juncture. Since the previous FSAP, Chile’s well diversified financial sector has deepened and further advances have been made in terms of financial inclusion...

Multi-Partner Fund (MPF) Report : July - December 2021 (English)

The Multi-Partner Fund (MPF) for Somalia has been the primary source of financing for the World Bank Group’s (WBG) early reengagement in Somalia after more than two decades of disengagement. The MPF was...

The Great Unbundling : How Technology is Making Financial Services Modular and What it Means for Inclusion (English)

This publication shares Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP’s) perspective on how financial services are changing, through a business model lens. In so doing, it attempts to provide an understanding...

Fintech and Financial Inclusion : A Funders’ Guide to Greater Impact (English)

Many donors and impact investors today are looking to support new innovations to maximize their development impact. But with fintechs emerging all the time - many touting their potential to improve the...