Financial Inclusion

Development Finance Needs Creative Solutions. Rhino Bonds Are Just One Example.

Last month, the World Bank issued a five-year outcome bond that aims to provide clean drinking water to around two million school children in Vietnam. A lack of clean drinking water causes an…

David Malpass|
Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector, Water

The April 2023 Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable: Time for meaningful debt restructuring

In advance of the next meeting of the Sovereign Debt Roundtable on April 12, I want to provide a quick update on recent developments and reiterate my call for prompt action toward debt…

David Malpass|
Debt, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector

How digital public infrastructure supports empowerment, inclusion, and resilience

Digital public infrastructure can enable essential society-wide functions and services such as identification, payments, and data exchange.

Vyjayanti T Desai, Jonathan Marskell, Georgina Marin, Minita Varghese|
Digital Development, Financial Inclusion, Governance, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships

Are women a minority if they count for at least half of your infrastructure PPP demand?

While infrastructure has been perceived as gender-neutral, it can be deeply exclusionary if masculine sensibilities solely determine the design. How can private investors incentivize gender…

Luciana Guimaraes Drummond e Silva|
Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Gender, Governance, Financial Inclusion

Embracing the promise of Fintech responsibly through regulation and supervision

While eager to embrace the fintech promise, financial authorities—including those with an explicit financial inclusion mandate—need to be able to do so in a safe and responsible way. Innovation…

Tatiana Alonso Gispert, Pierre-Laurent Chatain|
Digital Development, Financial Inclusion, Financial Sector
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Financial Inclusion