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Publications
Oral Financial Numeracy in Tanzania: An Exploratory Study
Based on prior informal studies, including one in Bangladesh (published in Oral Information Management Tools, 2014) this paper profiles numeracy skills in a sample of 40 economically active, illiterate adults…
Measuring Numeracy for Financial Inclusion
A CGAP Background Paper by Brett Hudson Matthews This 2019 paper reports on a “financial numeracy indicator” developed by My Oral Village and tested in Côte d’Ivoire and Myanmar in…
Design for Oral Financial Inclusion: Briefing Note #2
Illiterate and semi-literate (‘oral’) individuals are typically unbanked and may live in villages and other cultural contexts in which the motivations to acquire the numeracy skills that are characteristic of…
Hidden constraints to digital financial inclusion: the oral-literate divide
The vision that digital finance can promote universal financial inclusion overlooks that about a billion of the world’s adults are unable to read or write 3- or 4-digit numbers. In…