Ignacio Mas and John Gitau

Ignacio Mas and John Gitau
Freelance/Kenya Financial Education Centre

IgnacioMas is a freelance consultant focused on mobile money technology and policy.

Formerly a Senior Advisor in the Financial Services for the Poor program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ignacio led research, policy and financial infrastructure work.Ignacio also has been a Senior Adviser in the Technology Program at CGAP (a resource center for microfinance housed at the World Bank), VP of Marketing and Account Management at interTouch (an NTT-DoCoMo Group Company that manages broadband solutions for the hospitality industry), Director of Global Business Strategy at Vodafone Group, and Senior Manager responsible for telecoms investments inEuropeat Intel Capital (Intel Corp’s venture capital arm).

Ignaciohas been a Visiting Professor of International Business at the Graduate School of Business at theUniversity of Chicago. Heholds undergraduate degrees inmathematics and economicsfrom MIT and a PhD in economics fromHarvard University.

You may find out more about Ignacio via his websitewww.ignaciomas.com.

John Gitau is a financial education consultantand trainer, and CEO of Kenya Financial Education Centre.

Articles by Ignacio Mas and John Gitau

Wednesday
June 18
2014

Ignacio Mas and John Gitau

Everyday Financial Alchemy: How the poor make money appear on cue

Poor people´s financial concerns revolve mainly around making money appear as recurrent expenses come due, and when one-off needs and emergencies arise, says Ignacio Mas. They do this primarily through tactics he calls liquidity farming and income shaping. Mas and John Gitau illustrate the relationship between these two concepts in this intriguing post.

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Monday
May 26
2014

Ignacio Mas and John Gitau

NexThought Monday – Liquidity Farming: How the poor cultivate relationships to create sources of future cash

Poor people have a variety of ways to make money materialize, from agriculture and trading to investing in livestock or land. But a large portion of their industry is directed at farming liquidity, says Ignacio Mas. As Mas and John Gitau describe it, this involves cultivating a variety of techniques for converting their intricate social networks into potential sources of cash.

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