The Fiscal Ship is an award-winning online game from the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings Institution and the Wilson Center’s Serious Games Initiative, letting players design their own U.S. federal budget. Summary: Players start by choosing…
Zoud GameLab Financial Literacy Research Pack is a folder that contains a set of financial literacy and financial inclusion resources (research papers, reports, and toolkits) gathered to support your research and game preparation for the jam. Feel free to download…
The Secret Process for Creating Games that Matter is a presentation by game designer Jesse Schell and Dr. Barbara Chamberlin (New Mexico State University), laying out a design framework for making games meant to create real-world change. Summary: The resource…
Build the Capacity of Cash Recipients is a toolkit from UNHCR and WFP’s Responsible Cash resource, giving frontline staff practical guidance and training materials for building cash recipients’ digital and financial skills. Summary: The toolkit covers how to design financial…
Her Journey to Digital Financial Inclusion is an infographic from WFP (World Food Programme) mapping out the path toward women’s economic empowerment through digital financial inclusion by 2030. Summary: The infographic maps a woman’s path to digital financial inclusion, from…
Mitigating Risks of Abuse of Power in Cash and Voucher Assistance is a collection of resources from The CALP Network, anchored by an overview of a joint UNHCR/WFP initiative and linking out to country-specific reports (Uganda, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Iraq, Cameroon,…
Financial Literacy around the World is a World Bank research paper by Lisa Xu and Bilal Zia reviewing global evidence on financial literacy and what actually works to improve it. Summary: The paper reviews survey data and program evaluations from…
The Bottlenecks in Making Sense of Financial Well-Being is a paper by Leonore Riitsalu, Adele Atkinson, and Rauno Pello looking at why nobody can agree on what “financial well-being” actually means. Summary: The authors analyzed over 120 academic and industry…
Games Can Solve Real World Problems with Kucheza Gaming is a virtual workshop with Kucheza Gaming that was held on Sept. 23. Summary: Games Can Solve Real World Problems is interactive workshop exploring the principles and methods behind serious games…
The Actual Challenges of Financial Literacy is an academic paper by Jan W. Mitchell and Magipervas E. Abusheva (Tomsk Polytechnic University) examining why financial literacy efforts fall short worldwide. Summary: Based on survey data from over 1,500 students and professionals…
