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Can Digital Currencies Change the World?: Bitcoin is a tech-savvy alternative to traditional payment systems, but could it meet the needs of the financially excluded?
Riding on the Bitcoin hype, a legion of techno-optimists believes that digital crypto-currencies have the potential to transform ineffective global payment systems, and ultimately spur global financial inclusion. But will digital currencies such as Bitcoin truly change the global payment infrastructure and bring financial access to millions?
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Cash Or Credit? How Kids Pay For School Lunch Matters For Health
American kids have a problem with obesity, according to the most recent studies. In fact, the closest thing we have to good news about childhood obesity is that kids are not gaining weight as rapidly as they were some years ago. Researchers may have identified one surprising new factor in why kids are overeating.
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Let Me Keep My Cash: The challenge of digitizing wages in Bangladesh’s garment sector
In the search for ways to jump-start the use of electronic money, some proponents are focusing on the digitization of wage and salary payments. But InterMedia’s latest research in Bangladesh suggests that convincing workers to embrace cashless payments may not be a slam-dunk.
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Fighting Poverty with Unconditional Cash
Rather than building schools and clinics, or donating solar lights and cows, is the best way to fight global poverty simply to give poor people money? That’s the question a group of smart economists are testing, and their answers could stand the multi-billion dollar aid industry on its head.
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African consumers slow to use advances in money
Distrust of mobile payments costs bank customers money for every transfer they make.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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“Donate to health, not Gods”
Instead of donating money to temples, Dr Poonawalla suggested Indian billionaires to look at donating funds for education and health care purposes.
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- South Asia
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The Benefits of No-Strings-Attached Cash
What if I suggested that the best way to fight poverty is simply to give money to poor people, no strings attached? You’d probably say I was crazy. But over the past decade, lots of studies suggest that cash transfers are in fact an efficient way of actually tackling poverty.
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A Farewell to Cash?: The move toward a cashless world – and what it could mean for the BoP
In a digital world, why do we remain so attached to old-fashioned bits of metal and paper? David Wolman tackles the question in his book, “The End of Money," which illuminates the forces that could be driving us toward a cashless future. He spoke with NextBillion Financial Innovation about what a cashless world might look like - and what it could mean for the poor.
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