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Young People: Access to Finance Using Branchless Banking
The following article, written by Monique Cohen, originally appeared on the Child & Youth Finance International Blog and can be found here. Within ...
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Taking the Pulse: The Role of Technology in Youth Financial Inclusion
Technology, particularly mobile phones, seems poised to rapidly increase access to financial services in developing countries at a time when youth ...
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Getting to Know You(th): How Piloting Allowed HFC Bank to Sharpen Its Value Proposition for Young People
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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Kenya Postbank Pilot Experience
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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In The Tank: Player One Has Escaped Poverty
Marking the release of Half the Sky: The Game, New America's Jamie Zimmerman and Greta Byrum discuss the potential for social cause gaming and mobi...
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Higher Education Accreditation
A Background Primer To understand higher education accreditation in the United States it is important to appreciate the values and beliefs that und...
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Child Finance Meeting Brings Voices From Around the World
Researchers and practitioners from around the globe met at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis this week to make strides toward ...
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Youth and Their Health in Ghana
The Center for Social Development (CSD) has recently released a research brief titled, “Youth and Their Health in Ghana.” The brief offers baseline...
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When Demographics Shift the Way We Think About Youth Finance
The Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion recently released fascinating demographic data through the Mapping the Invisible Market project, as pa...
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Beautiful Souls
The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
History has produced many specimens of the banality of evil, but what about its flip side, what impels ordinary people to defy the sway of authorit...
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Keeping Youth Financial Services from Becoming Risky Business: Highlights From YouthSave's Risk Monitoring Strategy
While the YouthSave project strives to enable youth to take charge of their own futures by creating viable savings opportunities, it is also proact...
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Experts Converge on Beijing to Discuss Lifelong Asset Building
The following article originally appeared on The Center for Social Development's site and can be found here. Asset building policy is rapidly incre...
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Call for Applications - CYFI’s Youth Awards Championship
ANNOUNCEMENT
Child and Youth Finance International recently announced the start of its Youth Global Movement in which children and youth can make their voices h...
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On Internet Freedom
Every few years, a new book comes out arguing that the future of the Internet is at risk. And every few years, it really is. This book, by one of t...
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An A-Z Guide for Implementing Savings Programs for Low-Income Youth
Recently, Women’s World Banking (WWB) released an e-publication designed to guide banks, MFIs and other financial institutions through the process ...
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Talibanistan
The longest war the United States has ever fought is the ongoing war in Afghanistan. But when we speak of "Afghanistan," we really mean a conflict ...
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Voices of Four YouthSave Account Holders Highlighted in USA Today Supplement
Over the holidays, in an independent supplement to USA Today, the voices of four YouthSave account holders came to the forefront. The special editi...
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The Insurgents
David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
The Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who plotted to revolutionize one of the l...
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A King of Beers?
Concentration of Power Over America's Alcohol Markets is Bad for Consumers. It Also Imperils Constitutional and Moral Balances.
In some respects, America’s market for beer has never looked healthier. Where fewer than a hundred brewers operated a generation ago, we now can co...
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The Young and the Entrepreneurial
Zeenat Rahman, the State Department's Special Adviser on Global Youth Issues and Director of the Office of Global Youth Issues and YouthSave's Jami...
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New Research on Low-Income Youth, Assets, and Educational Access
The following article orginally appeared on The Ladder and can be found here. Academic research is sometimes said to “collect dust on the shelf.” A...
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Five Questions on YouthSave’s Research in Ghana
Question 1: What are the main objectives of the research in Ghana? The objective of the Ghana research experiment is to understand how the YouthSav...