Achieving inclusive growth
The expansion of microfinance services has included a widening array of services as well as greater diversity of partners such as banks, mobile operators, retailers and social investors. MFIs will continue to serve the ultra-poor with specialized services, but outreach will also be achieved by banks working with ‘correspondents’ to expand into rural areas, as Citi Microfinance is already demonstrating in Mexico and Colombia.- Development impact bonds: learning from the Asháninka cocoa and coffee case in Peru
- Trade-off between outreach and sustainability of microfinance institutions: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
- Value chain development for rural poverty reduction: A reality check and a warning
- Impact assessment of commodity standards: towards inclusive value chains
- What is cocoa sustainability? Mapping stakeholders’ socio-economic, environmental, and commercial constellations of priorities