Image credit: McKay Savage. A Self-Help Group from Limuru fighting food insecurity
September 2020

Explorable Data around Self-Help Group Prevalence and Coverage

Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa can be defined as mutual assistance organizations through which individuals undertake collective action in order to improve their own lives. “Collective action” implies that individuals share their time, labor, money, or other assets with the group.

Image credit: McKay Savage. A Self-Help Group from Limuru fighting food insecurity
January 2020

Explorable Data around Self-Help Group Prevalence and Coverage

Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa can be defined as mutual assistance organizations through which individuals undertake collective action in order to improve their own lives. “Collective action” implies that individuals share their time, labor, money, or other assets with the group.

CICO_network_infrastructure
December 2018

Regulating Cash-in Cash-Out Networks in LMICs

Many individuals in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face a financial infrastructure gap. One way organizations have begun addressing this financial infrastructure gap in low-income and rural communities is through the provision of digital financial services (DFS). To utilize DFS however, users must be able to convert physical cash into electronic money through cash-in, cash-out (CICO) networks.

November 2017

Who Has Heard of Mobile Money?

Being aware of the potential benefits and services of Digital Financial Services is pre-requisite to accessing them. We analyzed the effect of various sociodemographic characteristics on an individual’s likelihood to be aware of DFS, focusing in particular on differences by gender.

Data used by digital credit products
May 2017

Digital Credit: An Emerging Market

Digital credit products are rapidly emerging in the digital financial services (DFS) market as a new, innovative form of accessing electronic money.

Nigeria Growth and Poverty
January 2017

Economic Growth & Poverty in Nigeria: Part 2 of 2

This is the second in a two-part series on measuring and understanding economic growth and poverty in Nigeria, presenting findings from EPAR Technical Report #327. Nigeria became Africa’s largest economy in 2014.

Nigeria Growth and Poverty
January 2017

Economic Growth & Poverty in Nigeria: Part 1 of 2

This is the first in a two-part series on measuring and understanding economic growth and poverty in Nigeria, presenting findings from EPAR Technical Report #327.