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YouthSave Kicks Off Savings Pilots in Ghana and Kenya
YouthSave marked a major milestone in July with two partner financial institutions (FIs) kicking off their product pilot tests: HFC Bank in Ghana a...
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It's all in the Mind - How Behavioral Science Presents a Golden Opportunity for Financial Inclusion
With the “golden age of behavioral research,” as New York Times columnist David Brooks recently described, comes a golden opportunity for the asset...
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Microfinance Voices - Youth and Money: Planting the Seed for Success
Originally posted in Microfinance Voices. As a growing population in the developing world, youth are a promising market for financial services. Pra...
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Accelerating Financial Capability Among Youth: Nudging New Thinking
This paper argues that common definitions of financial capability understate the role of psychological barriers to establishing sound financial beh...
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Manana Forever?
Why are Mexicans so successful in individual sports, but deficient in team play? Why do Mexicans dislike living in skyscrapers? Why do Mexicans lov...
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YouthSave Begins Piloting Impact Assessment Questionnaire
The YouthSave impact assessment in Ghana will document financial, psychosocial, educational, and health-related impacts of Youth Savings Accounts o...
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Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights
The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
The sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis crackli...
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Innovating in Financial Capability: The CFSI Awards and the Next Generation of Creative Interventions
With financial capability innovations and digital tools such as Hellowallet, the Doorway to Dream’s Fund Financial Entertainment Portal and Banco A...
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National Strategies for Successful Youth Financial Inclusion
Originally posted on the YFS-Link Portal. Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 200 million youth between the ages of 12 and 24. This number is expected to...
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Youth Savings: Challenges and Opportunities in Product Development and Delivery
Video featuring interviews with three YouthSave Expert Advisory Board members on their perspectives related to the challenges and opportunities to ...
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Proposing Propositions & Crafting Communications: Reflections from a Facilitated YouthSave Workshop
I am always amazed by the creativity and the energy that is generated when a group of people with different perspectives comes together to solve a ...
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Pakistan: A Hard Country
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man. Anatol Lieven, who has reported on Pakistan off and on for 20 years, ...
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Getting Better
Why Global Development Is Succeeding — And How We Can Improve the World Even More
As the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe ...
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Taxing the Poor
Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged
This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to incom...
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Fighting for Darfur
Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide
Around the world, millions of people have added their voices to protest marches and demonstrations because they believe that, together, they can ma...
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The Net Delusion
The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
"The revolution will be Twittered!” declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about the...
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The Longest War
The Enduring Conflict Between America and al-Qaeda
Ten years have passed since the shocking attacks on the World Trade Center, and after seven years of conflict, the last U.S. combat troops left Ira...
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The Net Delusion
The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
“The revolution will be Twittered!” declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about the...
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Savings Accounts for Young People in Developing Countries: Trends in Practice
This paper surveys current practice to better understand the diverse range of youth savings initiatives under way in developing countries, and the ...
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YouthSave Project Launches New Website
November 23, 2010, Washington, D.C. - One-third of the global population is under the age of 19, but less than ten percent have access to financial...
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Audience Evolution
New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences
Today's consumers have unprecedented choice in terms of the technologies and platforms that access, produce, and distribute media content. The deve...