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Piloting the 2014 Findex
As President Kim pointed out earlier this month at the plenary of the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings, 2.5 billion adults worldwide aren’t using the formal financial system
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Mobile Devices Alone Won’t Solve American Financial Inclusion Problem
Mobile services would alleviate friction and save time for underserved, low-income consumers. But convenience won't necessarily transform the financially excluded into the financially included.
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Mobile Money Comes To Ethiopia
Ethiopia lags far behind its East African neighbours in the development of its telecommunications sector and the services that the system now routinely provides elsewhere. This is about to change with the rollout of the country’s first mobile money transfer system this January
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Micro-finance: the fuel or fall of entrepreneurship in emerging markets?
The advent of micro-finance has ignited hopes that micro-entrepreneurs would now have one less obstacle in their way.
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- Education
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- microfinance, research
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Indian company to install 15,000 ATMs in the next 3 years
India is an under-penetrated ATM market with only 98 ATMs for every one million people.
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- South Asia
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Look beyond the obvious for mobile payments’ value proposition
Analysys Mason senior adviser Tim Harrabin predicts that the end of the physical wallet is near.
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New Study Finds Cash Alone Effective Way to Fight Poverty
The study found that poor recipients spent the money on a broad variety of items, including food, shelter, and productive assets, leading to significant improvements in income, food security, and psychological well-being.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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LIC ties up with NGOs for covering lower strata
Aam Admi Bima Yojana provides insurance to earning members of rural landless families; LIC has covered 4.8 million beneficiaries so far. Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) has tied up with 31 non-governmental organisations (NGO) in Lucknow division for offering insurance cover to the bottom of the pyramid.
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