Welcome to the latest issue of the Gateway Exchange! The Gateway team has been busy traveling lately, as media partners for the ICT4D Conference in India and the WEE Forum in Thailand. We will also be at the upcoming Social Performance Task Force Annual Meeting in Mexico City from 6-8 June, so stop by and say hi if you're attending.
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Now we need to harness digital finance to supplement clients' resilience
By Sabine Spohn, Senior Investment Specialist at the ADB
In late 2016, many presumed Indian microfinance institutions would be adversely affected by India's sudden demonetization law. Surprisingly, events unfolded quite differently to expectations...
While big data has greatly improved our understanding of various issues and allowed us to better address challenges, it has also created new dilemmas for data privacy and security. This was one of the key topics explored at the ICT4D conference held recently in Hyderabad, India. In this blog, we share our three main takeaways from the discussion.
Data from the Global Findex 2014 shows that women are 36% less likely to use mobile money than men, and this gender gap is wider in certain regions and countries. To better understand the mobile money gender gap, this study analyzes demand- and supply-side data from two countries: Mali and Côte d'Ivoire. The researchers examined transactional data with a gender lens to understand how customers use mobile money, and where female customers drop off on the customer journey - from registration to active use - compared to their male counterparts.
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