practiceScaled

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

📍 Colombia · 2012 · Fundación Capital

Scale
local
subnational
national
systemic

Description

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

Linked evidence

Freeing Financial Education via Tablets: Experimental Evidence from ColombiaNBER Working Paper 25929 (Attanasio, Bird, Cardona-Sosa, Lavado) · 2019Evidence