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.- Value chain financing: evidence from Zambia on smallholder access to finance for mechanization
- Developing agro-pastoral entrepreneurship: bundling blended finance and technology
- Building frontline market facilitators' capacity: the case of the ‘Integrating Very Poor Producers into Value Chains Field Guide’
- 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