Digital Financial Services and Financial Inclusion Half Day Workshop

The EPRC, together with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), will host a half-day stakeholders’ engagement to disseminate research findings on Digital Financial Services (DFS) in Uganda. It will run under the theme, Actionable Policies for Financial Inclusion.

The event will take place at Sheraton Hotel, Kampala on Thursday August 17, 2023, from 8:00am.

The papers to be presented are:

• Digital finance policy and its impact on financial inclusion in Uganda by Nicholas Okot and Elizabeth Kasekende.
• Early evidence of the impact of mobile money on monetary stability in Uganda by Jimmy Apaa Okello.
• Gender digital financing divide in Uganda: a quantitative analysis of social-economic factors by Ambrose Ogwang, Rehema Kahunde, Maya Denis Makika.
• The monetary economics of e-money and policy implications: evidence from Uganda by Nicholas Okot, Isaac M.B. Shinyekwa, Enock N.W. Bulime and Justine Luwedde.
• Leveraging digital services and market development for financial inclusion by Isaac M. B.Shinyekwa, Dablin Mpuuga, Aida K. Nattabi and Enock, N.W. Bulime.