Empowering Micro-Retailers Through Digitization: Hype or Promise?

The CGAP Explainer Podcast by Inclusive Finance Frontiers

Nov 27, 202400:19:38Education

From a duka in Kenya, a tienda de barrio in Colombia or a kirana in India, micro-retailers that stock fast-moving consumer goods go by many different names around the world. No matter what they’re called, they’re univers...

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