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Blog Post
July 24, 2018
Eight years and millions of mobile financial transactions later, we came together again at a private CGD roundtable in London to discuss the potential of mobile banking and savings for women’s economic empowerment. We were pleased to hear the richness of research evidence and interventions on ...
Jul
25
2018
HYBRID
Washington, DC
9:30—11:00 AM ET
July 09, 2018
Many practitioners and researchers are grappling with how to better measure women’s and girls’ empowerment in impact evaluations. Which approaches to measuring a complex social outcome like decision-making power should we use, and can we improve on our existing models? When should we use internation...
June 06, 2018
CGD commissioned additional research to analyze the context, methodology and results of the pilot study on mobile savings for women entrepreneurs. The following papers provide in-depth studies of existing literature on savings and the results across various stages of the pilot’s progress. More...
Jun
11
2018
9:30—12:15 PM
May 22, 2018
There is a lot of development data out there. But how do we translate this information into better development decisions--and better outcomes? This event, convened by the development nonprofit TechnoServe, in collaboration with the Center for Global Development, will explore some of the key que...
Blog Post
May 14, 2018
A sense of urgency was present at a recent World Bank Spring meeting on financial inclusion. This is not surprising, given the Bank’s ambitious goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020. Two years to go and globally about 1.7 billion adults remain unbanked—close to 1 billion of the...