All publications: social finance

Social Finance Working Paper #53: Microfinance and Child Labour

Village Banking in Lao PDR

Practical tools for strengthening village banks as a means of giving poor women and men in rural and often remote areas access to much needed financial services, social empowerment and a higher quality of life.

Empowering rural communities through financial inclusion

Key issues and policy options to promote access to financial services for rural communities.

Financial education for youth in Nepal – Trainee's booklet

This trainee’s booklet is designed for young women and men, aiming to equip them with financial knowledge and management skills that enable them to set life goals and create effective financial plans to achieve these goals.

Zanzibar. Social protection expenditure and performance review and social budget

Zanzibar's lack of social protection has left it vulnerable during the current financial crisis and economic downturn, and basic social services are urgently required. The ILO-DFID funded project sets out the current situation of existing social...

Microinsurance that works for women : making microinsurance programs gender-sensitive

Microinsurance Innovation Facility - Briefing Note 2

The landscape of microinsurance in Africa

Microinsurance Innovation Facility - Briefing Note 1

Social Finance Working Paper #52: Formalisation through microfinance

An empirical study in Egypt

Social Finance Working Paper #51: Trade unions and financial inclusion

The case of South Africa

Social Finance Working Paper #50: The contribution of migrant organisations to income-generating activities in their countries of origin

Social Finance Working Paper #49: Financial arrangements in informal apprenticeships

Determinants and effects: findings from urban Ghana

Social Finance Working Paper #48: The poor and voluntary long term contractual savings

Lessons from South Africa

Social Finance Working Paper #46: Assessing indebtedness

Results from a pilot survey among steelworkers in São Paulo

Social Finance Working Paper #45: The impact of liberalisation policies on access to microfinance

The case of Peru

Social Finance Working Paper #44: Overindebtedness in Germany

Eliminating child labour: The promise of conditional cash transfers

Reviews some of the issues that arise in the consideration of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes in the fight against child labour. It draws on the documented experiences of such programmes, which have proliferated in Latin America although...