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Mobile Payments Gain Traction Among India’s Poor
South Asia is a fertile market for the concept. The region consisting primarily of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan accounts for the largest number of offices actively providing mobile money services, 3.8 million compared with 805,000 in all of Africa and 1.8 million in East Asia and the Pacific.
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Give People Choices, Not Edicts
Over the past few years, many nations have adopted policies that promise to improve people’s lives while preserving their freedom of choice. These approaches, informed by behavioral economics, are sometimes called nudges.
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Has The SEC Made Equity Crowdfunding Economically Unfeasible?
It seems that The SEC has created a quagmire of complicated rules and economic roadblocks.
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Why many in SKS Microfinance Ltd love to hate its founder
Akula believes that microfinance is a core solution to global poverty and yet it could be highly profitable, a balance all microfinance entities are struggling to achieve.
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Microfinance empowering women in un-banked villages
Sa-Dhan, an umbrella of microfinance groups, hopes pending Bill will bring down interest rates.
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How mobile money fights malnutrition in Guatemala
When a natural disaster or humanitarian emergency strikes, food is usually distributed in the form of rations given to people standing in long queues.Getting cash and food aid to remote rural communities after a natural disaster like an earthquake or a hurricane is logistically complex, expensive and takes time.
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How a money-tracking tool is helping businesses grow in India
While growing up in northern India, Shivani Siroya says she encountered entrepreneurs on a regular basis. Now, she's helping them track their finances in order to boost their businesses.
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Ugandans sidestep banks, embrace mobile money
The use of non-bank formal services is leading the pack of financial inclusion in Uganda, a new study has revealed.
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