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Nudges for Financial Health: Global Evidence for Improved Product Design

Despite good intentions, people often make less-than-optimal financial choices. In this series, we match insights from our global research in behavioral economics with specific financial service...

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The Impact of Smartcard Electronic Transfers on Public Distribution

Advances in payments technology have the potential to improve the efficiency of slow and corrupt public welfare programs.

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High Hopes - Saving for High School with a Mobile-Money Lock-Box

In many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the transition from primary school to high school is costly for students and their parents in Kenya even when tuition costs are low.

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General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India	Assessing the demand for micropensions among India’s poor
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To Fee or Not to Fee? Designing Inclusive Savings Products for Women	Closing the Gender Gap in Digital Finance: Tailored Products Are Not Enough
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How Do Mobile Money Fee Structures Impact the Poor?	Who’s the Boss: Standing Up for the End User of Digital Payments
Beyond RCTs: How Rapid-Fire Testing Can Build Better Financial Products	Market vendor in Uganda receiving a mobile money payment CREDIT: Will Boase Testing Products, Scaling Solutions: A Call for New Research to Advance Digital Financial Services in the Developing World
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In the Financial Times, How Data Can Help Philanthropy Measure What Matters	IPA Study on Mobile Money Featured in The Economist
The Daily Star Features IPA Studies on Mobile Finance and Gender Inequality in Bangladesh	IPA Mobile Money study in Wall Street Journal
Mobile Money Services Like M-PESA Key to Poverty Reduction In Africa	Here’s why mobile banking can help India beat poverty
Mobile phones are transforming Africa	Thousands of Kenyan single mothers, widows use mobile money to escape poverty
Research Shows Mobile Banking Lifting Hundreds of Thousands from Poverty	The evidence is in: mobile money can help close the gender gap
Dial M For Money: Can Mobile Banking Lift People Out Of Poverty?	The long-run poverty and gender impacts of mobile money
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IPA Sierra Leone and UNCDF to Hold Behavioral Design Workshop for Digital Financial Service Providers	IPA Zambia Presents at 10th ICT4D Conference in Lusaka
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Rebecca Rouse Presents at SEEP Webinar	IPA Presents on the Gender Gap in Digital Financial Services at the 2017 Women’s Economic Empowerment Global Learning Forum
IPA and CGAP Host Behavioral Research for Consumer Protection Policymaking Workshop	IPA Uganda Participates in CARE’s Women Digital Sub-Wallets Workshop
Webinar: Women's Economic Empowerment through Financial Inclusion	IPA Peru & J-PAL Host “Innovating to Promote Financial Inclusion: Recent Evidence and Policy and Research Agenda” Workshop (Español & English)
IPA Peru Presents “Digital Financial Tools: What is Working?”	IPA Colombia Presents Results of SMS Replication Study at Colpensiones Forum
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