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Youth Savings in Developing Countries
Research and experience to date suggest that savings accounts for low-income youth may be a high-leverage tool to achieve both youth development an...
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Save the Children and Bank of Kathmandu Ltd. Launch YouthSave Project
This press release was originally distributed by Save the Children November 2, 2010, Kathmandu, Nepal - An agreement was signed between Save the Ch...
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The Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
According to Columbia professor and policy advocate Tim Wu, the great information empires of the 20th century have followed a clear and distinctive...
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The Tenth Parallel
Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
The tenth parallel—the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator—is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity an...
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California Crackup
How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It
Is California beyond repair? A sizable number of Golden State citizens have concluded that it is. Incessant budget crises plus a government paralyz...
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The Icarus Syndrome
A History of American Hubris
In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks -- a story about the seductions of success. Beinart describes Washington on...
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Youth Savings around the World: Youth Characteristics, Savings Performance, and Potential Impacts
Youth, ages 15 to 24, will rise in number from just under 500 million in 1950 to 1.2 billion by 2050. Almost 90% will live in developing economies,...
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Beyond the Echo Chamber
How a Networked Progressive media Can Reshape American Politics
AmazonLink: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1595584714/ What do high-impact projects look like? What are the common goals against which success mi...
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Cornered
The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction
Regular Harpers and Financial Times contributor Barry C. Lynn paints a genuinely alarming picture: most of our public debates about globalization, ...
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Objectives
The YouthSave Consortium has worked closely with one financial institution and one research partner in four countries – Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, and...
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Colombia
When YouthSave began, the financial sector in Colombia was comprised of 18 banks, totaling 5,076 branches. Despite this number of branches, out of ...
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Kenya
When YouthSave began, Kenya’s banking sector was comprised of 43 commercial financial institutions, along with microfinance institutions (MFIs) and...
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Nepal
When YouthSave began, Nepal’s financial sector consisted of 29 commercial banks, 80 development banks, 79 finance companies, and a number of microf...
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Ghana
When YouthSave began, Ghana’s formal financial sector was comprised of 28 registered banks along with an active microfinance network, a rural banki...
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About Youthsave
YouthSave is a consortium project led by Save the Children in partnership with the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Lo...
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How Oppressive Can A Nudge Be?
Alan Wolfe Argues that Behavioral Economics is the Real Threat to Liberalism
Probably the most distinctive innovation in the Obama Administration's brand of liberalism is its interest in behavioral economics and the power of...
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The Hawk and the Dove
Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies...
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The Evolution of God
In The Evolution of God, award-winning and bestselling author Robert Wright takes us on a sweeping journey through history, unveiling a discovery o...
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To Live or to Perish Forever
Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
In To Live or to Perish Forever Nicholas Schmidle takes readers to Pakistan's rioting streets, to Taliban camps in the North-West Frontier Province...
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The House at the End of the Road
The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
In 1914, in defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a light-skinned black woman nam...
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Savings-Linked Conditional Cash Transfer: A New Policy Approach to Global Poverty Reduction
This policy brief makes the case for linking conditional cash transfers to savings as a two-pronged poverty reduction strategy of supplementing inc...
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The Next Progressive Era
A Blueprint for Broad Prosperity
The Next Progressive Era provides a blueprint for a re-empowered progressive movement and describes its implications for American families, work, h...