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Friction and Flow: How innovation can put relevance back into formal savings
Do you realize to what extent formal savings services are irrelevant to many of the world’s poor?Ignacio Mas explores the challenges of making savings products both relevant and simple, in a thought-provoking addition to NextBillion Financial Innovation’s opening series.
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First Microfinance Institutions in Latin America Certified for Strong Client Protection Practices
The Smart Campaign, a global initiative to incorporate strong client protection practices across the microfinance industry, announced the first three microfinance institutions in Latin America to become Client Protection Certified.
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Small loans, big smiles in Mexico’s Oaxaca
A microfinance nonprofit offers tours to meet Mexican women in their small businesses — and your tour dollars go to new loans.
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First-Ever Kiva U Summit Convenes Student Leaders and Educators Around Financial Inclusion
More than 150 college and high school student leaders and educators from around the world with an interest in critical issues around financial inclusion gathered for the first-ever Kiva U Summit.
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Universal Financial Access Vital To Reducing Poverty, Says World Bank President Jim Yong Kim
Leaders at a major World Bank Group forum put forward a vision for achieving universal financial access by 2020.
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Microfinance key to achieve MDGs–Nobel awardee
JUST like microcredit, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, said on Friday the banking system needs to be redesigned so it can provide everybody access to financial services.
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Microfinance in the Crosshairs: Will Kyrgyzstan’s usury bill backfire?
Microfinance has become a subject of controversy, as predatory lenders and unfair interest rates have tarnished its image and led to government interventions. But in Kyrgyzstan, a country with little financial regulation and no sovereign credit rating, increasing regulations may soon have negative consequences for the very clients they’re intended to protect.
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NexThought Monday: Our Top 5 Tips for BoP Marketing: What are yours?
Inspired by discussions at the Hystra’s Marketing Innovative Devices to the Base of Pyramid as well as our own extensive experience in marketing life-changing products to the BoP, here at Living Goods, we thought it was high-time we shared our Top 5 Tips for BoP Marketing. Like any good list, we hope it sparks a vibrant discussion...
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