Blog Series

Asset Finance for the Poor: Innovations and Challenges

Asset finance offers donors and investors a potentially scalable approach to advancing several SDGs. In this blog series, we explore innovations and challenges in asset finance across emerging markets.

Woman stands next to bicycle she financed through a social enterprise in Uganda
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Two Sides, One Coin: Credit Risk Management and Consumer Protection

Woman receives loan in Ghana
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The Social Impact Credit Trap in Asset Finance

A woman in India weaves a basket
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Last-Mile Consumer Finance: Embracing Opportunity, Managing Risk

Family in kitchen next to microwave and refrigerator
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Crédito Fácil: Electric Banking in Colombia

A pay-as-you-go (PAYGo) solar customer in Nigeria uses a radio powered by solar energy.
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The Breaking Point: How Warranties Support Sustainable Asset Finance

An engineer with Orange Energie, a PAYGo solar provider in Mali, cleans a rural customer's solar panel. Photo: Nicolas Réméné
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PAYGo Transformed Off-Grid Solar: Is Consumer Financing Next?

A home lit by solar power in India. Photo: Dominic Chavez, IFC
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The Box, Not the Tools: Managing Credit Risk in Asset Finance

Productive assets like livestock can help households build financial resources, for example, by allowing the m to increase and diversify their incomes. Photo: K.M. Asad, 2015 CGAP Photo Contest
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Asset Finance Innovations Can Advance SDGs – If They Scale Responsibly

Solar energy used to light village shop. Sri Lanka. Photo: Dominic Sansoni / World Bank
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What Do Low-Income Customers Want from Asset Finance?

Photo: Baobab+ Senegal
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Smart Phones, Smart Partners: Linking Asset Finance and Microfinance

Smartphones and solar panels. Photo Left: Anindya Majumdar, 2017 CGAP Photo Contest. Photo Right: Dominic Sansoni, World Bank
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From Smartphones to Solar Panels: Are Asset Finance Advances Pro-Poor?

Residents of a small village in Tanzania draw water.
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Where Do We PAYGo from Here? PAYGo Beyond Solar

Solar lamp
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Stuff Matters: Rethinking Value in Asset Finance