Digital Technology to Increase Credit Access for MSMEs

How might we increase the inclusivity of scoring mechanisms of financial service providers without compromising accuracy and transparency and while defeating discrimination?

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Asian Development Bank

 

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. It assists its members and partners by providing loans, technical assistance, grants, and equity investments to promote social and economic development.

ADB, in partnership with member governments, independent specialists, and other financial institutions is focused on delivering projects in developing member countries that create economic and development impact. 

As a multilateral development finance institution, ADB provides:

- loans
- technical assistance 
- grants 

 

ADB maximizes the development impact of its assistance by: 

- facilitating policy dialogues, 
- providing advisory services, and 
- mobilizing financial resources through co-financing operations that tap official, commercial, and export credit sources
 
As a response to COVID-19, ADB is supporting its developing members in responding to the COVID-19 outbreak through finance, knowledge, and partnerships.