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

📍 México · 2017 · Fundación Capital

Scale
local
subnational
national
systemic

Description

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. 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.

Linked evidence

LISTA Exceeds its Objectives in MexicoFundación Capital (Medium) · 2017EvidenceFreeing Financial Education via Tablets: Experimental Evidence from ColombiaNBER Working Paper 25929 (Attanasio, Bird, Cardona-Sosa, Lavado) · 2019Evidence