Global Findex: Digitalization in COVID-19 Boosted Financial Inclusion

This study evaluates pricing strategies in CRS’s Private Service Provider (PSP) model across four African countries. It compares flat vs. proportional fees and standard vs. pro-poor training, offering insights into affordability, sustainability, and poverty outreach.

The Building Pathways conference brought together key stakeholders to address a critical challenge in financial inclusion and poverty reduction: bringing capital and other financial services like insurance to financially excluded populations through village-level savings and loans groups (Savings Groups, SGs). These groups, in which women mobilize their own resources, have provided a vital source of investment and cash flow to people excluded from the formal financial system, especially rural women in Africa.