Resources on social finance

  1. Publication

    Social Finance Brief: Financial services to enhance resilience

    13 November 2023

    Banks, credit unions and microfinance institutions can boost the resilience and create a brighter future for vulnerable communities through innovative solutions. This brief explores in more detail such comprehensive services, including savings, insurance, emergency loans and financial education.

  2. Document

    Gender and financial inclusion

    06 March 2020

    In many societies, women face discrimination and are disproportionately vulnerable. Unequal gender roles have implications for the most basic aspects of self-determination, dignity and freedom, which in turn influence financial inclusion - or lack thereof.

  3. Publication

    Social Finance Working Paper #65: Microcredit in France

    02 May 2016

    What impact does it have on employment?

  4. Publication

    Social Finance Working Paper #57: Microfinance and job creation

    14 November 2014

    A social performance assessment of a new loan delivery mechanism, Bai Tushum Kyrgyzstan

  5. Publication

    Making Microfinance Work: Managing Product Diversification

    05 December 2011

    This textbook, designed for middle and senior managers in microfinance institutions, is relevant for institutions that have already diversified and are looking for ways to manage their diversification more effectively as well as those that have not yet done so and are looking for guidance on where and how to begin. This second volume builds on the highly acclaimed "Making Microfinance Work: Managing for Improved Performance".

  6. Project documentation

    MF4DW: Newsflash August 2012

    15 November 2011

    MF4DW Project Newsletter

  7. Project documentation

    Conference Report: MF4DW Closing Workshop Dead Sea, Jordan

    15 November 2011