The ten steps to selecting a master
agent are: 1. Establish the key roles and responsibilities
of master agents.2. Chose the selection criteria that will
result in a...
Type: BriefReport#: 193263Date: August 26, 2024Author:
World Bank
Results from mobile money initiatives
demonstrate that although initial market research is very
important, it often gets things wrong. Therefore, it is very
importantto...
Type: BriefReport#: 193264Date: August 26, 2024Author:
World Bank
Stakeholders are persons or groups who
are directly or indirectly affected by a project, as well as
those who may have interests in a project and or the ability
to influence...
Type: BriefReport#: 193229Date: August 23, 2024Author:
World Bank
About 2.6 billion people worldwide still
live without access to safe water or adequate sanitation. In
Africa, population growth is further increasing demand for
these...
Type: BriefReport#: 193191Date: August 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
The goal of IFC's Georgia Tax
Simplification Project is to lower tax compliance costs
formicro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and expand
their tax base through...
Type: BriefReport#: 193212Date: August 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
A growing number of financial
institutions worldwide are adopting policies, systems, and
lending practices that reduce the environmental and social
impact of doing business....
The International Standards and
Technical Regulations program is a 3-year project financed
by the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The
focus of the program...
Type: BriefReport#: 193214Date: August 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
In recent years, considerable support
has emerged within the international community for broader,
more ambitious climate change miitigation efforts. Among the
leading...
Type: BriefReport#: 193217Date: August 22, 2024Author:
World Bank
IFC is helping Armenian food producers
increase competitiveness by improving their food safety
practices. The IFC Armenia Food Safety Improvement Project
will facilitate...
Type: BriefReport#: 193185Date: August 21, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Kenya Longitudinal Socioeconomic
Study of Refugees and Host Communities(K-LSRH) is the first
nationally comparable survey of registered refugees and
hosts inKenya,...
Type: BriefReport#: 193157Date: August 21, 2024Author:
World Bank
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group,
has launched the Pacific MicrofinanceInitiative in
partnership with the Australian Government to improve access
to basic financial...
Type: BriefReport#: 193181Date: August 21, 2024Author:
World Bank
A Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA) is
a multi-step process that analyzes and estimates the total
sum of the direct and indirect impacts of proposed
activities on the...
Type: BriefReport#: 193168Date: August 21, 2024Author:
Locher, Helen ;
Staub, Carsten ;
Lazarus,Kate M.
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...
Type: BriefReport#: 193148Date: August 20, 2024Author:
World Bank
There are many reasons why so many
mobile money launches have not met the high expectations set
by senior management. Often, the main success metric is
attaining a certain...
Type: BriefReport#: 193140Date: August 20, 2024Author:
World Bank
A number of factors affect the
successful development and deployment of a mobile money
business. The entire external environment affects the mobile
financial service...
Type: BriefReport#: 193125Date: August 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
Microfinance is an important tool for
improving livelihoods at the base of the pyramid by
increasing access to finance to underserved households and
microentrepreneurs,...
Type: BriefReport#: 193105Date: August 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
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...
Type: BriefReport#: 193080Date: August 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF)
is an innovative IFC-led, funded by EC program, that is
expanding access to insurance for natural disasters and
weather risks...
Type: BriefReport#: 193119Date: August 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
IFC’s Infrastructure and
Natural Resources Group provides equity and debt-financing
solutions to commercially viable companies and projects in
Asia and the Pacific....
Type: BriefReport#: 193118Date: August 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
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