A recent report dispels the myth that kids can’t save. In fact, younger youth (those under 13) save more than older youth. Parents also play an imp...

The theme for the final multi-stakeholder meeting held on October 23, 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya was “Promoting Youth Financial Capability to Unlock Su...

CGAP spoke to about a dozen financial service providers (FSPs) worldwide who are leading an effort to offer financial services- savings in particul...

The 2014 Children’s Savings Conference organized by the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) recently provided a fantastic opportunity to ...

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting with a few of the over 5,000 young Nepalis who are currently saving in CYBY accounts at YouthSave’s pa...

Just a couple of weeks ago we pulled back the curtains on a young boy’s life, a student in a small classroom at the base of Nepal’s Himalayan Mount...

This is the third and final installment of our latest blog series, Understanding YouthSavers, which highlights the findings of CSD's recent report,...

This is the second installment of our latest blog series, Understanding YouthSavers, which highlights the findings of CSD's recent report, Savings ...

This is the first installment of our latest blog series, Understanding YouthSavers, which highlights the findings of CSD's recent report, Savings P...

When YouthSave first started, one of our key research goals was to find out how low income youth aged 12 to 18 would respond when financial institu...

The following article, written by YouthSave's very own Rani Deshpande of Save the Children, originally appeared on Next Billion Financial Innovatio...

Recently, Women’s World Banking (WWB) released an e-publication designed to guide banks, MFIs and other financial institutions through the process ...

Over the holidays, in an independent supplement to USA Today, the voices of four YouthSave account holders came to the forefront. The special editi...

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 ...

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...

YouthSave researchers had a unique opportunity this August. They had the chance to meet project participants, and hear firsthand how their work is ...

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 ...

The following article, written by YouthSave's very own Jamie Zimmerman of the New America Foundation, originally appeared on Microfinance Gateway. ...

On August 23rd, the YouthSave Consortium convened a Multi-Stakeholder Meeting, entitled “Youth & Their Money: Insights into the Financial Lives of ...

In August, the YouthSave Consortium and partners came together in Kathmandu, Nepal, for our third Learning & Exchange Conference, to update each ot...

On July 12 YouthSave partner Kenya Postbank officially launched its new “SMATA” youth account with festivities at the Ofafa Jericho high school in ...

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...