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Data Privacy and Protection: Guidance Note to Kenya’s Digital Financial Services

This guidance note highlights how Kenya’s innovation and fintech ecosystem can comply with data protection laws while keeping the customer in mind.
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Is biometric technology in social protection programmes illegal or arbitrary? an analysis of privacy and data protection

The paper discusses the issue of inadequate privacy and personal data protection in social protection programmes, particularly related to biometric data, presenting good practices from India, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Pakistan and many more countries.
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Guide to Data Sources For Financial Inclusion Research

This report introduces five global databases covering account ownership, payments, digital adoption, trust, and the digital gender gap. It suggests data gaps and indicators helpful in fostering evidence-based policymaking.
© Copyright © 2023 by the Tech for Good Institute. All rights reserved.
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World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives

The latest edition of the World Development Report from the World Bank provides a blueprint on how to harness the power of data for development, to ensure no one is left behind.
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Improving financial inclusion through data for smallholder farmers in Kenya

As mobile-based digital agricultural solutions take hold in Kenya, there is a great opportunity to use data for improving financial inclusion of smallholder farmers.

© © GSMA
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Building the capacity of public health programmes to become data rich, information rich and action rich

Good quality, timely data are the cornerstone of health systems, but in many countries these data are not used for evidence-informed decision making and/or for improving public health. The S…
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Mexico Proves Bill & Melinda Right on Gender Data

Over 7.3 million women gained access to financial products from 2012 to 2018 due to policies informed by sex-disaggregated data. Read the CG Dev blog on why robust gender data is crucial for…
© © MIDIS
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Private Philanthropy for Development: Data for Action

OECD offers detailed, comparable data on private philanthropy’s contribution to development, and its role in supporting a sustainable COVID-19 recovery.
© ©OECD
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Balancing financial inclusion and data protection in South Africa: Black Sash Trust v Minister of Social Development

The participation of many underprivileged social clusters in the financial services sector has invariably been problematic in South Africa. This may be attributed to the country’s laws and p…
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The trillion-dollar prize: Plugging government revenue leaks with advanced analytics

Governments can capture about 20% of leakages over several years of concentrated effort using digital payment data, alternative data sources, and advanced analytics. Worldwide, that represe…
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Mobile Coverage and its Impact on Digital Financial Services

“The study finds that the type of mobile coverage provided has a significant effect on the DFS UI and type of mobile phone that can be used for DFS access.Feature phones and Unstructured Supplementary Service Data transactions continue to be the choice for the vast majority users.”
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GSMA: The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2019

This report reveals how the mobile gender gap is changing in low- and middle-income countries, as well as ranking the factors preventing equal mobile ownership and mobile internet use for me…
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Integrating Gender and Women's Financial Inclusion into the Central Bank of Egypt's (CBE) Framework

Central Bank of Egypt is promoting women’s financial inclusion through a set of different measures such as enabling the legal and regulatory framework conditions, modernizing the financial i…
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Advancing financial inclusion: Nigeria Study

For Nigeria to see broad adoption of digital payments it must find ways to encourage merchants and consumers to adopt them across a range of payment use cases. This pilot study by insight2impact highlights how transactional data can support an evidence-led strategy for digital adoption.
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A Case Study on Monetary Fraud in a Cashless Economy

A case study on three countries Sweden, United States and India is conducted to survey variations in costs for cash and card instruments in economies that have varying extents of cash in cir…
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Emerging trends in managing payment fraud

Based on surveys from 566 business leaders, a new VISA report finds that the top 3 (payments-related) fraud concerns are ID verification, data privacy, and transaction monitoring. It calls for taking a more holistic approach to fraud management which involves a mix of new technologies and new skills.
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Tienda Pago’s Digital Solution for Fast-Moving Consumer Goods

This report discusses Tienda Pago’s Digital Solution for Fast-Moving Consumer Goods.
© © Pagos Digitales Peruanos (PDP)
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How financial institutions and fintechs are partnering for inclusion: Lessons from the frontlines

This report finds and discusses that contrary to a popular narrative of competition between the legacy providers and newcomers in the market, financial institutions view fintechs as great partners for innovation and envisions more such partnerships as institutions learn from successful cases.
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Leapfrogging': of the Nature and Economic Implications of Mobile Money

This survey examines the evolution of mobile money, its important role in widening financial inclusion, and the impact of regulation on the development of mobile money systems.

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India's Progress Towards Cashless Economy-An Assessment

The study attempts to assess and report the progress made by the Reserve Bank of India in moving towards the ‘Cashless’ economy during the period 2004-05 to 2014-15.