Digital Financial Services Pricing
Overview
Innovations for Poverty Action’s Digital Financial Services Pricing Project provides monthly data on the prices digital finance providers list on their website for common domestic transactions, including cash-in, cash-out, transfers, and payments. This work is part of IPA’s Consumer Protection Research Initiative.
Costs are a leading driver of take-up and usage of digital financial services (DFS), yet little work has been done to measure these costs systematically. The DFS Pricing Project seeks to fill this gap by conducting an automated collection of DFS pricing across 18 low- and middle-income countries. When possible, we separate provider fees from government taxes.
Data Visualization
Prices by Country and Transaction Type
The visualization shows the price of each transaction type we measure by country.
Pricing Trends Over Time
The visualization shows changes in average prices over time, separated by country and transaction type.
Within-Country Pricing
This visualization shows entire price schedules for each provider in a selected country and for a selected transaction type.