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  • Leveraging ‘suptech’ for financial inclusion in Rwanda

    June 21, 2017 Editor 0

    With financial inclusion now established as an objective for most financial sector policymakers worldwide,  the day-to-day responsibility for ensuring its achievement in a responsible, consumer-friendly, and evidence-based manner often falls to financial sector supervisors.  Two challenges are particularly relevant: first, with an increased policy focus on financial inclusion, supervisors are often tasked with adapting reporting […]

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  • Competitive Cities: Kigali, Rwanda – governance, growth and gorillas

    March 16, 2016 Editor 0

    Natural attractions, clean streets and modern high-rise buildings: Kigali, Rwanda.  In mid-2014, the World Bank’s Competitive Cities team visited Kigali, Rwanda, the only national capital among our six case studies of economically successful cities around the world, representing the Sub-Saharan Africa Region. Kigali and Rwanda as a whole have enjoyed some of the continent’s fastest […]

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  • Sensors for MERL: What Works? What Does Not? What Have We Learned?

    November 23, 2015 Editor 0

    Sensors promise rapid insights into development programs. Exciting and quickly evolving technologies are expanding the range of what can be measured, while the precision, accuracy and frequency of measurement are continually improving as well. An evaluator’s dream! But what have we learned from our use of sensors to date? What measurement challenges can sensors overcome […]

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  • Spatiotemporal Detection of Unusual Human Population Behavior Using Mobile Phone Data

    June 2, 2015 Editor 0

    by Adrian Dobra, Nathalie E. Williams, Nathan Eagle With the aim to contribute to humanitarian response to disasters and violent events, scientists have proposed the development of analytical tools that could identify emergency events in real-time, using mobile phone data. The assumption is that dramatic and discrete changes in behavior, measured with mobile phone data, […]

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  • ​Smart Africa returns – with a focus on Rwanda

    October 29, 2014 Editor Comments Off on ​Smart Africa returns – with a focus on Rwanda

    Rwandan President Paul Kagame (center) and Minister Jean Philbert Nsengimana (left) work with children during the recent “Smart Rwanda Days” conference in Kigali. “Smart” is in. So is digital. According to President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, “digital innovation has leveled the playing field, making it easy for anyone from anywhere can compete in the global economy. Today, […]

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  • Financial Inclusion Up Close in Rwanda

    March 21, 2014 Editor 0

    You don’t have to spend very long in Rwanda before you start to be impressed by the financial inclusion landscape in this country – not only by the progress made over the past several years, but by the scale of ambition for the rest of this decade and beyond. The government has set a target […]

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