This brief presents World Bank Group’s (WBG’s) public financial data on mobile devices through web app which can be accessed via a mobile web browser and installed on iOS or Android devices.
After the manipulated elections of 2010 that saw the victory of the military backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), the junta dissolved in 2011 and Thein Sein was elected as president. The...
To make the value proposition work for retail agents, it is important to understand how the role that an MFSP expects them to perform fits within the agent’s existing business. Fit is particularly important...
The mobile money industry keeps asking, what is the value proposition for agents? One want to know what it is going to take to get the agents to put out significant amounts of effort for the MFSP, but...
The Ethiopian government, through Ethio telecom, often imposes nationwide, politically motivated internet filtering. Under a 2012 law regulating the telecommunication industry, attempts by journalists...
Mobile money, the use of mobile phones to provide financial services through virtual “wallets” to unbanked populations, is relatively new. The earliest innovators in South Africa and the Philippines entered...
Launched in March 2018, and implemented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Government of India (Gol), the POSHAN Abhiyaan (or the National Nutrition Mission) aimed at achieving improvement...
To help policy makers make practical programmatic design choices, this series summarizes recent literature on cash transfers and explains how the design of cash transfer programs can affect outcomes. The...
Studies from 2016 on demonstrate that the impact of cash transfers varies based on duration, depending on whether they are distributed over a short (24 months or less) or long (more than 24 months) period...
E-money services have become increasingly popular, particularly in developing countries. These services, offered by providers other than traditional banks, enable customers to deposit, store, transfer...
Nearly 2.7 billion people globally are still offline and not using the internet. The majority (94 percent) of unconnected individuals live in low- and middle-income countries, where the cost of internet-enabled...
Mobile phones have become the main communication tool and helped countless people to improve their lives in many countries. The use of mobile phones has grown exponentially over the past 30 years from...
Mobile phones have become the main communication tool and helped countless people to improve their lives in many countries. The use of mobile phones has grown exponentially over the past 30 years from...
What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption, and labor-market outcomes in developing countries? Who benefits from improved coverage of mobile internet?...
Este relatório é o resultado das recomendações para a infraestrutura cicloviária do município de Salvador, como subsídio à elaboração do Plano Cicloviário de Salvador.
Digital technologies (DTs) are becoming an important mechanism for unleashing inclusive development, particularly across Africa. The rollout of mobile broadband internet (3G) coverage has expanded substantially...
Robust and inclusive identification systems are crucial for development, as enshrined in sustainable development goal (SDG) target 16.9, which mandates countries to provide legal identity for all, including...
Nigeria’s Kaduna State has created a GovTech-enabled citizen engagement program designed to make government investment more responsive to citizens. This program provides a homegrown mobile phone app, and...
Building on our Early Learning Partnership (ELP) Phase 1 research (Rossiter et al., 2018, Kim et al., 2021), Phase 2 primarily aims to identify the effects of pre-primary school participation and quality...