Items tagged ‘youth-savings-development’
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Riding Financial Inclusion Disruption: Are Youth Savers the Surfers or the Wave?
Rani DeshpandeThe following article, written by YouthSave's very own Rani Deshpande of Save the Children, originally appeared on the Center for Financal Inclusio... -
Looking Beyond Headcount: An Interview with Bank of Kathmandu CEO Ajay Shrestha
Rani DeshpandeJust 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... -
Youth Savings Uptake: Nature or Nurture?
Katie Stalter Lissa JohnsonThis is the third and final installment of our latest blog series, Understanding YouthSavers, which highlights the findings of CSD's recent report,... -
If You Build It Who Will Come?
Katie Stalter Lissa JohnsonThis is the second installment of our latest blog series, Understanding YouthSavers, which highlights the findings of CSD's recent report, Savings ... -
Taking the Bank to the Youth
Katie Stalter Lissa JohnsonThis is the first installment of our latest blog series, Understanding YouthSavers, which highlights the findings of CSD's recent report, Savings P... -
"Understanding YouthSavers" Blog Series to Launch This Week
Jamie ZimmermanWhen 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... -
Saving Themselves: Why Young People Are Asking for Better Savings Services
Rani DeshpandeThe following article, written by YouthSave's very own Rani Deshpande of Save the Children, originally appeared on Next Billion Financial Innovatio... -
Big Questions for the Youth Financial Inclusion Field: A Roundup From the 2013 YouthSave Annual Meeting
Rani DeshpandeA few weeks ago, YouthSave project partners from around the world convened in Washington, DC for our annual Learning & Exchange Conference (LEC). W... -
Creating Financially Capable Youth: Is There an App for That?
Jamie ZimmermanLeading up to the release of the New America's latest Global Assets Project report -- Beyond the Buzz: The Allure and Challenge of Using Mobile Pho... -
Mobile Money = Youth Financial Access Leapfrogger?
Jamie ZimmermanLeading up to the release of the New America's latest Global Assets Project report -- Beyond the Buzz: The Allure and Challenge of Using Mobile Pho... -
The Mobile Accelerator Theory of Youth Financial Access: Myth or Miracle?
Jamie ZimmermanLeading up to the release of the New America's latest Global Assets Project report -- Beyond the Buzz: The Allure and Challenge of Using Mobile Pho... -
"Beyond the Buzz" Blog Series to Launch Next Week
Jamie ZimmermanLeading up to the release of the New America's latest Global Assets Project report -- Beyond the Buzz: The Allure and Challenge of Using Mobile Pho... -
Measure Twice, Cut Once: What Pilots Can Reveal About Serving YouthSavers
Youthsave ConsortiumAlmost 40,000 youth are now saving in accounts rolled out under the YouthSave project. But before scaling their youth savings accounts, three of ou... -
Business Case Webinar Roundup
Youthsave ConsortiumLast week, the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) hosted a webinar entitled “Exploring the Business Case for Youth Savings,” which brough... -
How BoK Used Pilot Findings to Focus On What Really Matters
Rani DeshpandeYouthSave’s bank partners began creating their youth savings accounts in 2010, with extensive market research that obtained firsthand information a... -
Getting to Know You(th): How Piloting Allowed HFC Bank to Sharpen Its Value Proposition for Young People
Corrinne NgurukieYouthSave’s bank partners began creating their youth savings accounts in 2010, with extensive market research that obtained firsthand information a... -
Kenya Postbank Pilot Experience
Corrinne Ngurukie Rani DeshpandeYouthSave’s bank partners began creating their youth savings accounts in 2010, with extensive market research that obtained firsthand information a... -
Youth and Their Health in Ghana
Lex NowakThe Center for Social Development (CSD) has recently released a research brief titled, “Youth and Their Health in Ghana.” The brief offers baseline... -
Keeping Youth Financial Services from Becoming Risky Business: Highlights From YouthSave's Risk Monitoring Strategy
Courtney JamesWhile the YouthSave project strives to enable youth to take charge of their own futures by creating viable savings opportunities, it is also proact... -
An A-Z Guide for Implementing Savings Programs for Low-Income Youth
Nicole ToshRecently, Women’s World Banking (WWB) released an e-publication designed to guide banks, MFIs and other financial institutions through the process ... -
Voices of Four YouthSave Account Holders Highlighted in USA Today Supplement
Over the holidays, in an independent supplement to USA Today, the voices of four YouthSave account holders came to the forefront. The special editi... -
New Research on Low-Income Youth, Assets, and Educational Access
William ElliottThe following article orginally appeared on The Ladder and can be found here. Academic research is sometimes said to “collect dust on the shelf.” A...