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Making quality financial services available to poor households is not a new goal. Yet, the best estimates suggests that a quarter of the world is unbanked ... Read more →
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The Sentinel Project: Keeping watch on the future of microfinance, through an investigation into how leading MFIs weigh their choices and make decisions during the Covid-19 pandemic. Stay tuned for early project findings.
Small Firm Diaries: A global financial diaries project to shed light into the hidden lives of small firms, through interviews with more than 1000 firms in 7 countries. Learn more.
US Financial Diaries: We tracked 235 low- and moderate-income households over the course of a year to collect highly detailed data on how families manage their finances on a day-to-day basis. Explore our findings.
Small business owners overwhelmingly cite cost as the main barrier to improving job quality, but when we asked workers what they valued most, many of their top answers cost relatively little. That gap between owner perception and worker priorities is one of the most actionable findings from the final evaluation of Shared Success, an initiative by the Aspen Institute's Economic Opportunities Program (with support from the Gates Foundation) that worked with 11 Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) to embed job quality programming into their existing small business support.