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OPINION: Are the RBI and Indian government headed for a face-off?
The Modi government has ignored warning signals raised by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) about the way the Jan Dhan Yojana financial inclusion scheme is being implemented.
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India’s cooperative banks emerge from technological dark ages
The National Informatics Centre cooperative core banking solutions aims to address some of the concerns of financial inclusion in rural areas.
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‘the Hidden Tragedy of the Poor’: An Interview With Jonathan Morduch, Executive Director of the Financial Access Initiative
Jonathan Morduch is professor of Public Policy and Economics at NYU, and Executive Director of the Financial Access Initiative. In this interview with Upsides, he discusses the real reasons the poor struggle with their finances, how financial services providers can serve them better, and why his views on microfinance have changed.
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Outgrower Schemes: A pathway to sustainable agriculture
Outgrower schemes, which link networks of unorganized smallholder farmers with domestic and international buyers, have demonstrated win-win potential – but don’t always live up to it. TechnoServe, in Part 1 of a two-part series, details its investigation into the features of effective and sustainable outgrower models.
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Mobile Technology Overcomes Barriers to Financial Inclusion for Women
This week more than 1,000 leaders across industry, government and academia have come together at Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to discuss new approaches to address complex global challenges.
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Walmart Now Offering Low-Cost Mobile Checking Accounts
Apple Pay what again? Walmart is getting into the mobile banking space, the companyannounced this morning, through a partnership with financial services provider Green Dot Corporation.
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Vodacom “cautiously optimistic” that M-Pesa is better positioned to take off in South Africa
Mobile operator Vodacom is cautiously optimistic that itsMobile money offering, M-Pesa, is now better positioned to take off locally, after it failed to make much of an impression on the local market the first time around.
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IMF unveils results of global financial access survey
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has unveiled the result of its 2014 Financial Access Survey (FAS), which is aimed at mapping the global financial inclusion strategy.
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