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Takeaways & Best Practices from the CYFI Regional Meeting for the Americas and the Caribbean
The first Child and Youth Finance International Regional Meeting for the Americas and the Caribbean took place last month in México City. The meeti...
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Enidaso Account Opens A New Dawn In Child And Youth Financial Services In Ghana
The launch of Ghana’s first ever custodial savings account for persons under the age of 18 on September 20th represents a new era in the country’s ...
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Youth Savings in Uganda: Providing Bridges to the Future
On September 29th, over 1,000 orphaned and vulnerable children in Uganda opened Child Development Accounts as a part of the Bridges to the Future r...
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On-the-Ground Perspectives from Kenya Post Office Savings Bank
New America’s Eric Tyler interviews Lucas Muraguri, Marketing Officer at Kenya Post Office Savings Bank.
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Researchers Hear Firsthand About Nepalese Savings Experience
YouthSave researchers had a unique opportunity this August. They had the chance to meet project participants, and hear firsthand how their work is ...
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Nueva Investigación de Save the Children Demuestra Que los Adolescentes de Países Pobres Quieren Ahorrar Más Dinero
WESTPORT, Connecticut (3 de septiembre de 2012) – Según un nuevo estudio de Save the Children publicado recientemente, los jóvenes de los países po...
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A Contest to Inspire Youth Savings? Smart Policy!
ANNOUNCEMENT
Over the last year, the YouthSave Consortium has talked a lot about the value of learning from youth, hearing their voices and understanding their ...
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Financial Education as a Strategy to Promote Savings: New Lessons From ADOPEM
The extent to which financial education can actually motivate savings is a critical question for many parts of the financial inclusion field – from...
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The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today
From the #1 bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble, an epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq. ...
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Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man. It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manusc...
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Kathmandu - A Dramatic Setting for First PLP Training on Youth Financial Services
The following article orginally appeared on the SEEP Network Blog and can be found here. Kathmandu, located high in the Himalayas in a bowl-shaped ...
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Creating Future Opportunities for Youth by Understanding Their Needs Today
The following article, written by YouthSave's very own Jamie Zimmerman of the New America Foundation, originally appeared on Microfinance Gateway. ...
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Multi-Stakeholder Meeting Highlights Youths' Experience with Saving
On August 23rd, the YouthSave Consortium convened a Multi-Stakeholder Meeting, entitled “Youth & Their Money: Insights into the Financial Lives of ...
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Personal Reflections from YouthSave’s Learning & Exchange Conference in Kathmandu
In August, the YouthSave Consortium and partners came together in Kathmandu, Nepal, for our third Learning & Exchange Conference, to update each ot...
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Kenya Postbank Launches SMATA Youth Account
On July 12 YouthSave partner Kenya Postbank officially launched its new “SMATA” youth account with festivities at the Ofafa Jericho high school in ...
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Youth Savings Performance in Ghana, Kenya, and Nepal: Results from Pilot
Are YouthSave accounts attracting low-income youth? Are youth making deposits into their YouthSave accounts? Are there adjustments that would help ...
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Rani Deshpande and Ruth Dueck-Mbeba Share Insights on Youth and Their Money
At the recent YouthSave event, Youth and Their Money, Rani Deshpande, Director of YouthSave at Save the Children, and Ruth Dueck-Mbeba, Program Man...
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NEW DATA - Teens in Poor Nations Seek to Save More Money For the Future
Teens in poor nations want to save larger amounts of money over the long-term in secure places to pay for their education or to start a small busin...
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Youth Savings - Finding the Right Financial Tools at the Right Age
The following article originally appeared on NextBillion.net. With a third of the global population today under the age of 19 and 90 percent of the...
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Beyond Capital Gains: The Multiplier Effect of Youth Savings
The following article originally appeared on CGAP. In a recent New York Times article, Nick Kristof told the story of Alfred Nasoni, a farmer who p...
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A Glimpse into the Financial Lives of Ghanaian Youth: Findings from YouthSave’s Ghana Experiment Baseline Survey
Do Ghanaian youth have money? How do they get it? What do they do with it? These are questions we are beginning to answer in YouthSave using data f...