Items tagged ‘youth-savings-development’
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Five Questions on YouthSave’s Research in Ghana
David Ansong Gina ChowaQuestion 1: What are the main objectives of the research in Ghana? The objective of the Ghana research experiment is to understand how the YouthSav... -
Youth Savings Performance in Ghana, Kenya, and Nepal: Results from Pilot
Julia Stevens Lissa JohnsonAre YouthSave accounts attracting low-income youth? Are youth making deposits into their YouthSave accounts? Are there adjustments that would help ... -
NEW DATA - Teens in Poor Nations Seek to Save More Money For the Future
Clara Hogan Jamie ZimmermanTeens in poor nations want to save larger amounts of money over the long-term in secure places to pay for their education or to start a small busin... -
A Glimpse into the Financial Lives of Ghanaian Youth: Findings from YouthSave’s Ghana Experiment Baseline Survey
Julia Stevens Mat DespardDo Ghanaian youth have money? How do they get it? What do they do with it? These are questions we are beginning to answer in YouthSave using data f... -
Increasing Economic Citizenship Among Children and Youth
Rodrigo SermenoRecently, the Citi Foundation asked members of its Research Working Group to write a paper analyzing the existing literature on the key components ... -
Evaluating School-Based Financial Education Programs: What Can We Learn from Field Evidence?
Rodrigo SermenoRecently, I attended “Conversations that Build and Strengthen Youth Economic Opportunities” hosted by Making Cents International. The event feature... -
A New Way to Answer the Global Call for Better Data on Savings for the Poor: SPINNAKER Economic Opportunities
Jamie Zimmerman“We need data. We need to have a way to know what is working and what is not. There are no common indicators. There are no benchmarks for success. ... -
Financial Inclusion for Youth: Perspectives from SEEP, BRAC, and Making Cents International
Payal PathakThe following article, written by YouthSave's very own Payal Pathak of New America Foundation, originally appeared on Microlinks. As the youth-incl... -
It's all in the Mind - How Behavioral Science Presents a Golden Opportunity for Financial Inclusion
Payal PathakWith the “golden age of behavioral research,” as New York Times columnist David Brooks recently described, comes a golden opportunity for the asset... -
Microfinance Voices - Youth and Money: Planting the Seed for Success
Jonah Rexer Tanaya KilaraOriginally posted in Microfinance Voices. As a growing population in the developing world, youth are a promising market for financial services. Pra... -
YouthSave Begins Piloting Impact Assessment Questionnaire
David Ansong Gina Chowa Mat Despard Rainier MasaThe YouthSave impact assessment in Ghana will document financial, psychosocial, educational, and health-related impacts of Youth Savings Accounts o... -
Innovating in Financial Capability: The CFSI Awards and the Next Generation of Creative Interventions
Anya Maria MayansWith financial capability innovations and digital tools such as Hellowallet, the Doorway to Dream’s Fund Financial Entertainment Portal and Banco A... -
National Strategies for Successful Youth Financial Inclusion
David MorrisonOriginally 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...