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projectScaled · national · 2012

LISTA: digital financial education on tablets (Fundación Capital) in Colombia

Tablet-based financial education application designed by Fundación Capital for recipients of conditional cash transfers (mostly low-income women).

Rolls of assorted fabrics and textiles inside a tailor atelierillustrative atlas image · Ksenia Chernaya / Pexels

01 The context

It helps organize savings, expenses and debts via videos, ATM simulators, budgeting and financial games; it works even for those who cannot read or write. It replaces expensive, hard-to-scale in-person trainings.

02 How it works

03 What it stands on

Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
Peer-reviewed research documents this project: the strongest evidence level in the atlas.
The evidence 1
EvidenceFreeing Financial Education via Tablets: Experimental Evidence from ColombiaNBER Working Paper 25929 (Attanasio, Bird, Cardona-Sosa, Lavado) · 2019

04 Go to the source

Visit the official site fundacioncapital.org