COVID-19

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During the coronavirus pandemic, financial inclusion is more critical than ever. Low-income families and small businesses are acutely vulnerable to the health and economic impact of a global pandemic. They are less likely to have access to quality, affordable health care and paid leave to care for sick family members. And without adequate savings, insurance, and credit, it will be hard for them to weather the crisis, deal with business disruptions, and maintain their livelihoods. Accion is working with our partners around the globe to adapt and respond to this challenge and offer solutions that help people stay resilient during this difficult time.

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Outlining Priorities for Responsible Finance

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Ending the Cycle of Insanity: Responsible Finance in the Digital Age

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Designing for Dignity: Creating Equal Opportunity through Financial Inclusion – Q & A with Rosita Najmi, CFI Advisory Council Member

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Climate Vulnerability and Financial Exclusion Go Hand in Hand – What Can Be Done?

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Colombian Wetlands Hard Hit by Climate Shocks – What Role for Financial Services?

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FIW Recap: Consumer Protection – Crucial to Driving the Inclusive Finance Agenda

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A North Star or a Measurement Pulse? The role of financial health in inclusive finance

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Exploring the Intersection of Climate Shocks and Financial Inclusion

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FIW Recap: Women’s Financial Inclusion Remains Key Global Focus

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Envisioning Responsible Finance in the Context of Climate Change – the Role of Insurance Supervision

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In Honor of Data Privacy Week, Let’s Rethink Privacy in Inclusive Finance

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The Hidden Traps of Deceptive Design: Embedding Consumer Protection into DFS

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Matters of Urgency: Insights From a Fintech Risk Barometer Study

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FIW Recap: The Pressing Agenda of Climate Change and Financial Services

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End-of-Year Reflections

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Post-COVID Crisis & Opportunity in African Inclusive Finance

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Indian Financial Inclusion during COVID and Recovery: Public Policy to the Rescue

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ESG Frameworks: Risks or opportunities for financial institutions?

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Rebuilding After COVID: Financial Inclusion Across Asia

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Client-Centricity Leads the Way in Latin American Inclusive Finance Reponses to COVID-19

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Does Financial Inclusion Boost Borrowers’ Resilience? Three Lessons from the Pandemic

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Climate Change and Rising Consumer Risks: The two go hand-in-hand

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Digitally Reshaping Inclusive Financial Services in the Wake of COVID-19

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Slow-Motion Extinction? Or Can Impact Investors Reinvigorate Pro-Poor Financial Inclusion?

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Responsible Finance and its Role in Improving Financial Resilience and Well-Being

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Volatile Times Call for Sustained Resolve

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A Decade of Shared Learnings on Agriculture Finance: What Does the Data Tell Us?

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It Is the Best of Times, and the Worst of Times: India’s New Digital Lending Recommendations

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Digital Credit Algorithms in India: Expanding Access or Cementing Exclusion?

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Global Findex 2021: Growth, Stagnation, and (Relative) Decline in Global Financial Inclusion

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We Are All in This Together

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Driving Inclusivity on the Fintech Frontier: Let’s Make It Count

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Is There Value in Good Governance at the Early-Stage?

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Rural, Poor, and Pressured by Climate Change: Migration and Financial Inclusion in Guatemala’s Western Highlands

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Climate Change Adds to Challenges for MSMEs Recovering from COVID: Three Takeaways from CFI Surveys

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It’s a Time to Be Brave and Bold: Q & A with David Ferrand, CFI Advisory Council Member

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Gender Norms On and Off the Farm: Engaging Smallholder Women in Finance and Climate-Smart Agriculture

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Inclusive Finance Must Be Inclusive: Q & A with Joanna Ledgerwood, CFI Advisory Council Member

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Strengthening a PACT for Resilience: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Investors

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For Inclusive Fintechs, Resilience Is Growth’s Much-Needed Companion

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An Equitable Rebuilding: Learnings from Women-Owned MSMEs

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What Can COVID-19 Teach Us About the War in Ukraine? 5 Things to Remember

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Understanding the Decision: Consumer Rights and Algorithmic Decision-Making

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If You See Something, Say Something

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Identifying What Works: 15 Years of Microscope Data Reveal Key Policy Drivers of Financial Inclusion

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Improving Customer Financial Capability Through a Digital App: Lessons Learned from Pilots with Two FSPs

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Accountability for Algorithms: A Balancing Act for Governments

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Top 10 of 2021: CFI Research that Furthered Our Thinking in a Pivotal Year

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Diffusion Theory, the S-Curve, and Why We Need to Go Beyond Inclusion

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Furthering Digitalization’s Potential for Financial Inclusion: Insights from Sub-Saharan FSPs, Supervisors, and Associations

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Green Inclusive Finance: A Framework for Understanding How Financial Services Can Help Low-Income People Weather Climate-Related Risks

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Promoting Prosperity in an Era of Uncertainty

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Workarounds Don’t Work: Gender-Aware Financial Services Must Help Address Discriminatory Norms

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Financial Inclusion Must Address Restrictive Social and Gender Norms

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10 Things to Know About Nigerian MSMEs’ Experience with COVID-19

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Gender and Digital Worldviews: Divergent User Perspectives On Data Collection and Use

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Digital Lending in Kenya: Willingness vs. Capacity to Repay

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Inclusive Fintech 50 Launches 2021 Competition: Driving Innovation in an Era of Uncertainty

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Reducing Bias in Algorithmic Decisions Cannot Rely on “Blind” Approaches

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Help Wanted: A Global Push Toward Algorithmic Fairness

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Climate Change is Exacerbating Obstacles to COVID-19 Recovery for MSMEs in Nigeria

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Leveraging Digital Financial Capability to Drive Women’s Financial Inclusion

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Discussing Moratoria and Other Pandemic-Era Measures, a Q&A with FINCA Impact Finance

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Yes, COVID is the Big Bang of Digital Payments

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How Is Nigeria’s National Financial Inclusion Strategy Going?

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Regulatory Headwinds on the Horizon for Chinese Fintechs: Where Do Consumers Fit In?

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What Does It Take for a Woman to Become Financially Capable?

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Cautious Optimism: MSMEs Are Rebounding From the Impacts of COVID-19

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Behavioral Science for Financial Health in a Digital World: An Interview With Evelyn Stark

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Care Work During Crisis: Pandemic Unravels Fragile Gains in Gender Equality

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Rethinking Financial Inclusion at the Data Margins

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The Challenge of Bringing Agri-SMEs and Lenders Closer Together

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Revisiting Building Financial Capability with a Gender Lens

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Breaking Silos and Challenging Inequities in America: An Interview with Jennifer Tescher

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Prof. Jonathan Morduch’s Four New Projects

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Preparing for the Long Tail of COVID’s Impact on Microfinance

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Top 10 CFI Blog Posts of 2020

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Combating the Rise in Fraudulent Fintech Apps

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Have We Passed the Test? Reflections on the Test of a Lifetime

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Three Ways Governments Expedited Social Payments During COVID

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Digital Finance and Women’s Economic Empowerment: Possibilities and Pitfalls

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Questions for EIB Group: DFIs, Financial Inclusion and the COVID-19 Response

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How Consumer Protection Has Driven Maha’s COVID-19 Response

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Lending For Water and Sanitation During COVID-19

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What Is the Future of Microfinance? Q and A with Paul DiLeo

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There’s (Not) an App for That: Taking a Hard Look at the “App-ification” of Migration

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Financial Authorities’ Tools Must Evolve to Catch Up with “Digital Multinationals”

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Financial Inclusion Week and My Emoji Roller Coaster Ride

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COVID-19 Ushers in New Challenges for Consumer Protection

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Data for Inclusive Finance: Delivering on the Promise for Consumers

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Financial Services are Needed to Help Low-Income People Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change

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Reflecting on the Past and Charting a New Direction

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Nigerians Are in Desperate Need of Relief as COVID-19 Reduces Wealth and Stresses Coping Strategies

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DFIs, Financial Inclusion and the COVID-19 Response: A Q&A with Machal Karim of CDC

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Implications of COVID-19 for the Most Vulnerable: A Snapshot of Views from CFI’s Advisory Council

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The Time Has Come for Gender Transformative Approaches

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MSMEs in Indonesia Are Surviving but COVID-19 Leaves Little Margin for Error

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From Crisis to Opportunity: How Can Lenders Help Build Resilient Agri-SMEs

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Including Women Customers in “Inclusive Fintech”

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Are Moratoriums Good Policy and Good for FSPs?

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Including Women in “Inclusive Fintech”

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Have We Been Here Before?

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Improving Consumer Protection Market Conduct: Lessons Learned in Benin

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Remittances and Financial Inclusion: “Sending Money Home” in the COVID Era

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MSMEs in Lagos Struggle Due to COVID-19, but Remain Positive

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Making Digitization Work for Clients Starts With Client Engagement

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FSPs Adopt Client Protection: A Look Back, A Look Ahead

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Four Reflections on the COVID e-MFP Compass

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Microfinance Coalition, MIVs Team Up in Response to COVID-19

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DFIs, COVID-19 and Financial Inclusion: A Conversation with Richard Greenberg of DFC

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One Billion Accounts in the Pandemic Era: Insights from GSMA’s Mobile Money Report

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The Digital Payments Push: What 50 Micro-Merchants in India Are Saying

Are Moratoriums Good for Clients?

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Food Security and COVID-19: How Financial Inclusion Can Support Livelihoods

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Stress Testing in Crisis: Helping Savings and Credit Cooperatives in Mexico During COVID-19

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Fintech’s Next Best Ideas Might Be Discovered Remotely

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COVID-19 Reveals the Limits of Individual Action and Market-Based Solutions

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Gender Gap Narrowing “Bank Sakhis” Take Crucial G2P Support the Last Mile During COVID-19

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How Should Investors Coordinate When Time is of the Essence?

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Microfinance Coalition: Call to Action for Policymakers

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Microfinance Coalition: Call to Action for Donors

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Stronger Together: Why MIX and the Center for Financial Inclusion are Joining Forces

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Microfinance Coalition: Call to Action for Investors

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COVID-19 Threatens the Microfinance Sector and the Livelihoods of Those We Serve: Building a Coalition for Collective Action

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Q and A: Using Comics for COVID-19 Awareness

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Resilience and the Three Phases of Response

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Support for India’s Migrants During COVID-19: Navigating Potential Gaps in the System

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Mobile Money in Times of Crisis: An Unlikely Hero

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A COVID Digitization Stampede Mustn’t Trample Consumer Protection

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Diary of a Myanmar-Based, Agri-Focused FSP Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis

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Using Data to Elevate the Customer Perspective as FSPs Respond to COVID-19

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Building Resilience: How to Ensure Women Are Not Left Behind as a Result of COVID-19

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The Pandemic Will Not Deter Us

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“We’re Also Making Hand Sanitizer”: Kenyan Doctor on COVID-19 Impacts

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How Education Lending MFIs Are Responding to COVID-19

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How a Microfinance Network Has Changed Customer and Staff Engagement During COVID-19

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Continuity in a Crisis

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How Should FSPs Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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Pandemics and Natural Disasters: What Can We Learn from Past Disasters to Help with Today’s Pandemic?

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Can Financial Inclusion Moderate Impacts of Coronavirus?

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