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The Mobile Accelerator Theory of Youth Financial Access: Myth or Miracle?
Leading up to the release of the New America's latest Global Assets Project report -- Beyond the Buzz: The Allure and Challenge of Using Mobile Pho...
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Performance-Based Scholarships: What Have We Learned?
A recently released brief from MDRC shares interim findings from performance-based scholarship (PBS) demonstration sites in six states (Arizona, Ca...
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"Beyond the Buzz" Blog Series to Launch Next Week
Leading up to the release of the New America's latest Global Assets Project report -- Beyond the Buzz: The Allure and Challenge of Using Mobile Pho...
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2011–12 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:12): Student Financial Aid Estimates for 2011–12
The U.S. Department of Education recently released a report on how students are financing their college educations using data from its National Pos...
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Five Days at Memorial
Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina – and her suspen...
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Beyond the Buzz: The Allure and Challenge of Using Mobile Phones to Increase Youth Financial Inclusion
The recent application of mobile phones for financial inclusion among adults and the rising use of mobile phones among youth suggest that mobiles c...
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Experts on Lawsuit to Block American Airlines-US Airways Merger
Justice Dept. Suit Argues Tie-Up Would Result in Steeper Airfares, Higher Fees, and Fewer Choices
Washington, DC — The U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit today to block a proposed merger between American Airlines and US Airway...
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The Smartest Kids in the World
And How They Got That Way
In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they’ve never seen before. They are learn...
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Measure Twice, Cut Once: What Pilots Can Reveal About Serving YouthSavers
Almost 40,000 youth are now saving in accounts rolled out under the YouthSave project. But before scaling their youth savings accounts, three of ou...
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Business Case Webinar Roundup
Last week, the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) hosted a webinar entitled “Exploring the Business Case for Youth Savings,” which brough...
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Prior Learning and Competency-Based Education
A Background Primer In the last several years, policymakers and the public have begun to question the nation’s system of higher education. Skyrocke...
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The Pioneer Detectives
Did a distant spacecraft prove Einstein and Newton wrong?
Explore one of the greatest scientific mysteries of our time, the Pioneer Anomaly: in the 1980s, NASA scientists detected an unknown force acting o...
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Talking to the Taliban
The Afghanistan intervention shows why the U.S. must empathize with its adversaries
As the United States withdraws from Afghanistan, it leaves violence and uncertainty in its wake. The election of a new Afghan president gives some ...
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Seeing the Opportunity and Business Case for Youth Finance
This is the third installment of our series, Policy Innovations in Youth Financial Services. The series has been an online continuation of the glob...
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Perspectives on Youth Financial Services in Egypt
This is the second installment of our series, Policy Innovations in Youth Financial Services. The series has been an online continuation of the glo...
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Introducing Ms. Zeenat Rahman as the Newest Member of the EAB
The YouthSave Consortium would like to welcome Ms. Zeenat Rahman as the newest member of its Expert Advisory Board (EAB). Ms. Rahman, who brings a ...
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Banking on Youth, Finance and Policy
This is the first installment of our series, Policy Innovations in Youth Financial Services. The series has been an online continuation of the glob...
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Launch of the "Policy Innovations in Youth Financial Services" Blog Series
As the number of people between the ages of 10 and 24 climbs to over 1.8 billion individuals globally, ensuring economic inclusion and opportunity ...
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In The Tank: Bacon, China and the American Farmer
What does it mean when a Chinese company buys Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in the U.S.? This podcast has all the answers. Chris Leon...
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Colombia Wins Global Money Week Award
At the second annual Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) Summit awards ceremony, held last week in Istanbul, Colombia received an award fo...
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How BoK Used Pilot Findings to Focus On What Really Matters
YouthSave’s bank partners began creating their youth savings accounts in 2010, with extensive market research that obtained firsthand information a...
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Mobile Phones for Microsavings: Can Mobile-Enabled Savings Products Bridge the Youth Financial Services Gap?
The following article originally appeared on the Center for Financial Inclusion Blog and can be found here. Many of the challenges to saving faced ...