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Driving Financial Inclusion Through Innovation in Kenya
The increasing development of Kenya’s banking sector has allowed many people to have access to savings, especially those without prior access to fi...
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New Study Finds Declining Rates of Entrepreneurship
Editor's Note: This is a guest blog post authored by Lina Khan, program associate with New America's Markets, Enterprise and Resiliency Initiative....
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What Does the ‘Business Case’ for Youth Savings Really Mean?
The business case for youth savings is one of the most talked-about topics in the youth financial services space. There is tremendous interest from...
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Creating Creatures of Habit: Nudging Saving in Youth
Practitioners, policy makers, and researchers often assert the importance of individuals developing savings behaviors. For the poor, especially, wh...
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YouthSave’s Multi-Stakeholder Meeting Convenes Financial Capability Experts in Colombia
On June 14th, Save the Children in Colombia hosted the first YouthSave Multi-Stakeholder Meeting (MSM), which brought together representatives from...
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Twilight of the Elites
America After Meritocracy
Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church...
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Increasing Economic Citizenship Among Children and Youth
Recently, the Citi Foundation asked members of its Research Working Group to write a paper analyzing the existing literature on the key components ...
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Latest Quarterly YouthSave Newsletter Released!
ANNOUNCEMENT
To access this quarter’s newsletter click here. Newsletter Highlights Event Updates: YouthSave will hold Multi-Stakeholder Meetings in Colombia and...
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Building Communities of Practice: The Recent “Innovations in Youth Savings” Workshop in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Around the world, girls as young as 10 years old accumulate money regularly, manage it actively, and want a safe place to save it. Unfortunately, f...
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Towards a New Model for International Research Collaboration: Reflections on the April YouthSave Research Advisory Council Convening and Symposium
On April 17, 2012, a Symposium on International Research and Innovation at Washington University in St. Louis highlighted the experiences and insig...
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Savings Song Launches YouthSave's Financial Education Workshops in Colombia
As part of the overall Financial Capability strategy for Colombia, Save the Children has conducted several launch events in the same schools where ...
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Evaluating School-Based Financial Education Programs: What Can We Learn from Field Evidence?
Recently, I attended “Conversations that Build and Strengthen Youth Economic Opportunities” hosted by Making Cents International. The event feature...
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Private Empire
ExxonMobil and American Power
In Private Empire Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States, revealing the true extent of its ...
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YouthSave Newsflash: Bank of Kathmandu Launches Youth Savings Account for Low-Income Youth
The YouthSave Consortium is pleased to announce that on April 25th, the Bank of Kathmandu (BoK) launched its “BoK Chetanshil Yuwa Bachat Yojana (CY...
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My Account, My Future: Youth Feedback and Other Observations from the Pilot Evaluation in Kenya
As part of the YouthSave project, PostBank in Kenya recently launched a pilot of a new savings product for young people, called “SMATA,” youth slan...
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Working with Schools to Improve Youth Financial Capability: Tips from the Field
When considering how to reach kids with financial capability programming, schools – an aggregation point for hundreds, sometimes thousands of young...
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Land of Promise
An Economic History of the United States
From one of America’s leading intellectuals comes a sweeping and original work of economic history, recounting the epic story of America’s rise to ...
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The ‘Youth Voice’ in Youth Savings
Four exceptional young people living in Kibera - Botul, Sofia, Idris and Zuhora - tell us about their savings goals, challenges, and plans for the ...
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The Richer Sex
How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family
Bestselling journalist Liza Mundy’s smart, deeply reported analysis of the most important cultural shift since the rise of feminism: the coming era...
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Putting Clients at the Center of the Product Development Process
The following article, written by YouthSave's very own Rani Deshpande of Save the Children, originally appeared on the Microfinance Gateway. When P...
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The Escape Artists
A star White House journalist provides a gripping look inside the meeting rooms, the in-boxes, and the super-sharp minds of the pedigreed propeller...
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Perspectives from YouthSave Financial Partners: Is there a Business Case for Youth Savings Accounts?
Payal Pathak, Policy Analyst for the Global Assets Project at the New America Foundation, highlights key takeaways from YouthSave’s Financial Insti...