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The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) and the World Bank Group's State and Peacebuilding Fund released a timely report that sheds light on the importance of quality financial services...
No matter how well designed the technology, interoperability in digital financial services will not reach its full potential unless the right business structure and incentives are in place, CGAP...
CGAP today announced its 2015 Photo Contest winner as Sujan Sarkar of India. The winning photo, called "Paddy Cultivation," was chosen from more than 3,300 entries from 77 countries for its...
As CGAP celebrates ten years of successfully highlighting exceptional photography from amateurs and professionals from around the world, its 2015 annual Photo Contest is now open for entries....
A new six-country study shows a comprehensive approach for the ultra-poor, the approximately one billion people who live on less than $1.25 a day, boosted livelihoods, income, and health. Published...
WASHINGTON, July 1, 2014 /CNW/ - The annual CGAP Photo Contest, which aims to highlight stand-out photography from amateurs and professionals around the world depicting financial inclusion, is now...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2013 /CNW/ - The winner of the 2013 CGAP Photo Contest is Truong Minh Dien of Vietnam. A panel of four judges selected his photo, "Rainy Afternoon," out of a record number of...
WASHINGTON, June 26, 2013 /CNW/ - The CGAP Photo Contest, which aims to highlight stand-out photography from amateurs and professionals around the world depicting financial inclusion, is now...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2012 /CNW/ - The winner of the 2012 CGAP Photo Contest is Yavuz Sariyildiz of Turkey. His photo won out over a record number of 2,500 entries from professional and...
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2012 /CNW/ - In a clear sign of its increasing influence on the global financial stage, India has today become the newest member of CGAP, the independent policy and research...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2012 /CNW/ - The winner of this year's CGAP Microfinance Photography Contest is Ngo Quang Phuc of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. (Photo -...
In the midst of the microfinance crisis in the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh, CGAP CEO Tilman Ehrbeck has called for the microfinance delivery model to evolve to support healthy growth and the...
Ground-breaking mobile and agent banking programs have enabled poor people from <span class="xn-location">Kenya</span> to the <span class="xn-location">Philippines</span> to...
Groundbreaking study shows potential for microfinance institutions to serve small savers profitably through cross-selling, fees, and use of new technologies. Many microfinance...
The initial public offering (IPO) of Indian microfinance lender SKS marks a critical transition for microfinance, say the authors of a new CGAP paper, "Indian Microfinance Goes Public: The SKS...
Even as economies globally were contracting as a result of the financial crisis in 2009, access to formal finance in developing countries grew. An estimated 2.7 billion people around the world have...
CGAP today announced that Tilman Ehrbeck will be its new CEO. Ehrbeck, a Partner at McKinsey & Company, will succeed <span class="xn-person">Elizabeth Littlefield</span>, who was...
CGAP, an independent policy and research center dedicated to access to finance for the world's poor, welcomed this weekend's announcement by the Group of 20 (G20) Leaders that they have developed a...
The Senate has confirmed the appointment of former CGAP CEO <span class="xn-person">Elizabeth Littlefield</span> to head the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). <span...
CGAP, an independent microfinance center based at the World Bank, today announced a new partnership with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to expand ongoing global efforts to use ...
Sustained demand for microfinance equity, in the face of the worst financial crisis in decades, continued to propel valuations in this sector higher throughout 2009 and the medium-term outlook...
Recent repayment troubles in four rapidly-growing microfinance markets do not stem from the financial crisis, according to a new report by CGAP, a microfinance group based at the World Bank, but from ...
More than 170 million poor people worldwide receive regular payments from their governments, but the potential to use these payments to increase financial inclusion is largely untapped, according to...
Policy makers facing urgent demands to reform national financial systems have a key opportunity to help their poorest citizens gain access to useful financial services. But to seize that opportunity, ...
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