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This report discusses the state of the mobile money sector and industry trends, and it provides insights into the rollout and adoption of other mobile financial services such as mobile insurance. It is designed to provide practitioner and stakeholders, such as regulators, senior executives in the telecommunications and banking sectors, and international development agencies, with an overview of the industry and its impact on the financial lives of unbanked and under banked users.

This study focuses on characterising the availability, price and market penetration of electric off-grid lighting products in Kenya, based on a survey of retail vendors in three towns. It details key findings which include that LEDs continue to dominate the market, and that there are widespread quality problems for low-cost rechargeable torches.

The South African Business Development Services Provider (BDSP) space is active and growing. In an effort to deepen understanding of the incubator and accelerator landscape in South Africa, ANDE hosted a series of breakfast roundtables in Johannesburg and Cape Town in 2017 and 2018. Discussions focused on gathering qualitative information regarding key activities and services, programme structure and funding sources, as well as challenges and opportunities faced by BDSPs. This document presents an overview of the key findings from the roundtables and provides recommendations for further research.

"This brief presents evidence of the impact of solar household systems, reviews the market in the region and 13 selected countries, and identifies the key policy measures to enable accelerated access to electricity through solar household solutions. "

This paper describes how the household solar market in Sub-Saharan Africa has grown to date, its current status and possible future trends. It seeks to understand how universal access to electricity in the region could be achieved through solar household systems. Universal access in this context means every person having access to at least one basic, entry-level solar light.

The Entrepreneurship Database Program collects information from entrepreneurs when they apply to accelerator programs. These entrepreneurs, both those selected and not selected, are then surveyed annually to gather valuable follow-up data. This report summarizes application data collected from ventures operating in Central America that applied to participating accelerator programs between 2013 and 2018.

This report examines four major issues that CARE thinks need to be addressed in order to enable more poor people to participate effectively and sustainably in market systems and value chains: risk, systems, innovation and scale.

This report reviews how affordable private schools 'APS' try to strike a balance between education quality and fees charged. It outlines the strong correlation found between the fees that APS charge and the student learning outcome and it presents some of the performance indicators of the APS sector such as student learning outcome, teaching quality, financial performance, enrolment, fees and facilities based on the assessment data.

In its eighth edition, this year’s survey provides in-depth analysis of market activity and trends, covering topics such as: capital allocations by sector and geography, indicators of market development and industry challenges, approaches to impact measurement and management, and satisfaction with financial and impact performance. The report includes a five-year trends analysis of growth and changes in the industry. It also presents extensive information on many aspects of today’s impact investing market and sheds light on investors’ perspectives on a variety of current market topics such as: strategies to preserve impact integrity, the level of importance of various technologies to the future of impact investing, the role of public policy, and the role of blended finance.

This report is based on a research project which examined the impact of competition in four product markets - sugar, cement, beer and mobile phone services - in five countries. This edition focuses on Zambia and assesses how the policy framework in the country affects the degree of competition present in a given product market; and how the degree of competition affects market outcomes such as prices, competitiveness, innovation and access to services.