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projectCompleted · subnational · 2017

Fundación Capital's LISTA (tablet-based financial education) with Prospera beneficiaries

Digital financial education solution on tablets that work without internet, so that low-income people (mostly women receiving cash transfers) can learn to save, budget and use financial products without a classroom.

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01 The context

In Mexico, Fundación Capital implemented LISTA / LISTA+ with Prospera beneficiaries: a pilot started in January 2017 (Huamantla, Tulancingo, Querétaro, Puebla) with ~1,480 users, and LISTA+ later scaled to more than 75,000 households with USAID funding. A Mexican adaptation of a model proven by RCT.

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 2
EvidenceLISTA Exceeds its Objectives in MexicoFundación Capital (Medium) · 2017
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