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The experimenters strike back in microcredit research
“GIVE a man a fish”, said Bono, an Irish singer turned philanthropist, “he’ll eat for a day. Give a woman microcredit, she, her husband, her children and her extended family will eat for a lifetime."
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PRESS RELEASE: Correlation Established Between Mobile Phone Usage and Banking Behavior
Findings are result of WSBI project carried out by Cignifi
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My Day Without Banks
Lesson one from navigating the archipelago of check cashers, payday lenders, and discount store money desks: it’s expensive to be poor.
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World Bank to offer transition support of $3.5 billion to India for infrastructure, education initiatives
NEW DELHI: The World Bank will continue its concessional lending meant for poorer countries to India and has also significantly upped the country's single-borrower limit, looking to provide a helping hand to the new government in taking forward its agenda on infrastructure, skilling, river cleaning and tourism.
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More evidence that giving poor people money is a great cure for poverty
As solutions to global poverty go, "just give poor people money" is pretty rock solid.
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Women and Money: Bridging the Financial Inclusion Gender Gap in the Global South
The urban poor in the Global South lack access to banking and financial services, and women are disproportionately affected. They are less likely than men to hold a bank account, to take out a loan, or to borrow money. This is a detriment to development since women are more likely to spend extra funds on their family, thereby improving food, education, and health. São Paulo, Mexico City, Nairobi, Bangalore, and Dhaka have taken various approaches to bridging the financial inclusion gender gap.
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Fighting Financial Exclusion: How To Serve 88 Million Americans Who Have No Bank
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor,” the great American author James Baldwin wrote in 1960.More than half a century later, his words ring true to the 46 million Americans who live below the poverty line and to the millions more who are struggling to stay above it.
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Safaricom softens stance on opening up M-Pesa
Kenya’s largest mobile phone company Safaricom has softened its position on opening up its mobile money system M-Pesa to rivals.
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