November 16th, 2023
FinAccess 2021 livelihoods segments: Focus on farmers
Amrik Heyer
November 15th, 2023
Measuring Kenya’s financial inclusion journey
Amrik Heyer
November 10th, 2023
Developing a Financial Consumer Protection Outcome Index for Kenya
Christine Hougaard
October 11th, 2023
How are financial services improving the financial health of Kenyan adults?
Amrik Heyer
September 5th, 2023
How is finance supporting Kenyan businesses? Results from the 2023 FinAccess MSE Tracker Survey
Amrik Heyer
June 14th, 2023
Unlocking the potential of small firms: Overcoming challenges to drive ‘bottom-up’ growth in Kenya’s MSME sector
Amrik Heyer
April 5th, 2023
Floors and ladders – Is social security the missing ingredient for ‘bottom up’ growth?
Amrik Heyer
April 3rd, 2023
Social Security: A pillar of inclusive growth for Kenya?
Amrik Heyer
March 10th, 2023
Governor’s meeting with financial sector Chief Executive Officers on financial inclusion
Amrik Heyer
December 19th, 2022
State of the Economy: Inclusive finance for economic transformation
Anzetse Were
November 16th, 2022
Financial Health
Amrik Heyer
November 3rd, 2022
The Financial Inclusion Statistics Conference
Lukania Geraldine Makunda
October 5th, 2022
The state of financial health in Kenya: Trends, drivers, and implications
Paul Gubbins
July 25th, 2022
Transforming the informal economy: Social protection and inclusive growth
Amrik Heyer
This presentation explores the link between social security and inclusive growth in the context of Kenya’s informal sector.
The expansion of Kenya’s informal economy since the 1990s presents growing challenges for policy makers concerned to ensure that Kenya’s growth is both robust and inclusive.
April 27th, 2022
State of the Economy: 2021 Year in Review
Anzetse Were
The performance of the global economy continues to be defined by the COVID-19 pandemic with the war in Ukraine worsening the outlook for the world economy and Africa. For Africa ,the war in Ukraine will exacerbate food insecurity, increase fuel and food production costs, and push up the cost of living. Key global risks include the emergence of new COVID-19 variants which could prolong the pandemic and induce renewed economic and supply chain disruptions, energy price volatility, and high uncertainty around inflation and policy paths.
April 5th, 2022
Inclusive Finance for Sustainable Economic Development in Kenya
Anzetse Were
Kenya’s progress on inclusive financial sector development over the past five years places Kenya at the front of the curve relative to its peers. But beneath its headline success story, falling financial health and growing disparities in financial usage point to underlying challenges that compromise the ability of financial inclusion to deliver on its promise for inclusive and sustainable growth.
March 8th, 2022
Putting women at the centre of inclusive finance
Wanza Mbole Namboya
People’s ability to participate within the more formalised markets which characterise the modern sector of an economy is often conditioned by the degree of access to the financial system. Exclusion from finance can result in exclusion from opportunities to participate productively in value chains.
March 8th, 2022
A new approach to women’s economic empowerment: FSD Kenya’s Marsabit Pilot
Wanza Mbole Namboya
In 2016 FSD Kenya branched outside our core financial inclusion remit to embark on a new pilot in Marsabit county where we sought to develop a more holistic approach to economic inclusion. The ambition was to deepen the value of finance in people’s lives, moving beyond financial access and use and investing in building capabilities and market linkages to enable finance to yield stronger impacts on livelihood resilience and growth. Our aim was to reach the extreme poor and especially women, who are not well served by the financial sector.
March 2nd, 2022
Conducting Demand-side Surveys – The Case of Kenya’s FinAccess Survey 2021 in the COVID-19 era
Lukania Geraldine Makunda
December 1st, 2021
State of the economy report
Anzetse Were
This state of the economy report is a data brief on the key macroeconomic and households developments in Q2 an Q3 of 2021 as follows
November 26th, 2021
Kenya Small Firms Diaries Policy Workshop: Summary and policy takeaways
Amrik Heyer
October 25th, 2021
Gendered financial products research
Dalberg
This research seeks to unearth the financial needs and demands of urban female retail traders in Kenya by exploring how their financial needs are being met, through which instruments, and in turn, where the opportunities lie to drive improved or increased access to financial products.
October 13th, 2021
FSD Kenya COVID-19 Tracker – Finances, Health, and Coping in Kenya Infographic
Amrik Heyer
The earning population in Kenya has risen by May 2021 from a low point in June 2020; but median income has gone down reflecting pressure on the wider economy. Check out the latest wave of the FSD Kenya COVID 19 Tracker to find out more…
July 1st, 2021
How can inclusive finance build resilience in a world of shared resources?
Amrik Heyer
In November 2020, FSD Kenya was invited to co-chair a session at the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Development Symposium. The 2020 symposium, bringing together experts and mid-career professionals from sciences and social sciences, debated the question: ‘How can we build resilience in world of shared resources?’. The symposium focused on 3 areas: economic resources, human resources and natural resources. FSD Kenya was asked to co-chair a session on economic resources together with Eka Ikpe of Kings College London.
July 1st, 2021
Why economists need to pay attention to social relations
Amrik Heyer
COVID-19 has underlined the need to fundamentally re-imagine the ways in which we produce and distribute resources.
June 29th, 2021
Report – State of the Kenyan economy: Focus on Digitisation and the impact of COVID-19 on MSEs
Anzetse Were
In Kenya, divergence trends continue with macroeconomic resilience masking sustained inequalities and divergence in recovery. On one hand, inflation remains reasonable; export performance has been relatively strong (especially relative to other African countries); diaspora remittances have been robust; and the mobile money sector has demonstrated sustained resilience and growth.
June 16th, 2021
Social protection: not a cost, but an investment in long-term, sustainable economic growth for Kenya
Stephen Kidd
Rather than a ‘cost’ to the state, social protection is an essential component of any sustainable, national economic growth strategy. Most of the world’s successful economies are significant investors in social protection, with spending across the OECD averaging 12 per cent of GDP.
April 12th, 2021
Challenges facing women and youth grocery retail traders in Kenya
Carol Matiko
March 5th, 2021
Does gender matter in the design of digital infrastructure and services?
Amrik Heyer
February 22nd, 2021
Report – State of the Kenyan economy: Focus on the impact of COVID on women and education
Anzetse Were