Financial Inclusion

A recent study of microfinance borrowers shows that, on the whole, their loans led to improvements in their standard of living. But the impact also depended on the region and country those people inhabit.

We surveyed vaccinators who participated in the polio campaigns in Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, Tanzania and Zimbabwe

By Lindsay Smalling

More than 25 Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) came together during the pandemic to build recovery programs that expanded access to credit for un- and under-banked small businesses.