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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise Kids: Mitigating the Risk of Child Labor through Health Financing

Authors: Bobbi Gray & Amelia Kuklewicz. Health shocks can lead to failures of businesses, clients leaving their financial service...

Sep 21, 2021

Successfully Maintaining Customer and Investor Confidence During the COVID Crisis

About the Author: Rob Kaanen. The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis that is putting pressure on financial service providers (FSPs)...

Aug 25, 2021

Can a Medical Loan Help Microfinance Clients Tackle a Health Emergency Better? BRAC's experience

Authors: Shams Azad and Rubait-E-Jannat. The third in a series of blog contributions throughout this year to complement the European...

Jul 14, 2021

Hospital Cash: a Game-Changer for Enabling Financial Inclusion in the Post-COVID Economy

Author: Gilles Renouil. The second in a series of blog contributions throughout this year to complement the European Microfinance Award...

May 31, 2021

Five to Thrive! Embedding Health in Financial Services

Authors: Craig Churchill & Lisa Morgan. Kicking off a series of blog contributions throughout this year to complement the European...

Apr 19, 2021

‘The First Wealth is Health’: Exploring the EMA 2021’s Focus on Inclusive Finance & Health Care

Authors: Daniel Rozas & Sam Mendelson Published by NextBillion and re-posted with permission. “The first wealth is health,” wrote Ralph...

Mar 17, 2021

Looking Backwards to Move Forward: What Traditional Ways of Saving in Groups Can Teach Us

Author: Jeff Ashe. Last year the European Microfinance Award focused on “Encouraging Effective and Inclusive Savings.” Several European...

Mar 3, 2021

Financial Inclusion During – and After – COVID-19: Three Takeaways From a (Very Different) EMW202

Author: Sam Mendelson. From NextBillion and re-posted with permission. European Microfinance Week is the biggest thing the European...

Jan 6, 2021

Bangladesh’s Microsavings Revolution - The Country has Done Well in Savings as well as Credit

Author: Stuart Rutherford. As the European Microfinance Award 2020 on 'Encouraging Effective & Inclusive Savings' moves to its final...

Sep 23, 2020

Exploring Savings: A Short History of Its Origins and Transformation

Author: Hans Dieter Seibel. As the European Microfinance Award 2020 on 'Encouraging Effective & Inclusive Savings' moves to its final...

Sep 3, 2020

Perspectives from the Frontline: How Cooperativa Tosepantomin is Dealing with COVID-19 Crisis

Author: e-MFP. As part of our efforts to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on microfinance markets around the globe, e-MFP...

Jun 10, 2020

Perspectives from the Frontline: How Advans CI in Cote d’Ivoire is Dealing with the COVID-19 crisis