Articles
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Introducing Ms. Zeenat Rahman as the Newest Member of the EAB
Dr. Ashraf Gamal El-DinThe YouthSave Consortium would like to welcome Ms. Zeenat Rahman as the newest member of its Expert Advisory Board (EAB). Ms. Rahman, who brings a ... -
Banking on Youth, Finance and Policy
Tanaya KilaraThis is the first installment of our series, Policy Innovations in Youth Financial Services. The series has been an online continuation of the glob... -
Launch of the "Policy Innovations in Youth Financial Services" Blog Series
Youthsave ConsortiumAs the number of people between the ages of 10 and 24 climbs to over 1.8 billion individuals globally, ensuring economic inclusion and opportunity ... -
Colombia Wins Global Money Week Award
Alejandra Montes Dasha KosmyninaAt the second annual Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) Summit awards ceremony, held last week in Istanbul, Colombia received an award fo... -
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... -
Mobile Phones for Microsavings: Can Mobile-Enabled Savings Products Bridge the Youth Financial Services Gap?
Julia ArnoldThe following article originally appeared on the Center for Financial Inclusion Blog and can be found here. Many of the challenges to saving faced ... -
Young People: Access to Finance Using Branchless Banking
Youthsave ConsortiumThe following article, written by Monique Cohen, originally appeared on the Child & Youth Finance International Blog and can be found here. Within ... -
Taking the Pulse: The Role of Technology in Youth Financial Inclusion
Technology, particularly mobile phones, seems poised to rapidly increase access to financial services in developing countries at a time when youth ... -
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... -
Child Finance Meeting Brings Voices From Around the World
Katie StalterResearchers and practitioners from around the globe met at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis this week to make strides toward ... -
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... -
When Demographics Shift the Way We Think About Youth Finance
Tanaya KilaraThe Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion recently released fascinating demographic data through the Mapping the Invisible Market project, as pa... -
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... -
Experts Converge on Beijing to Discuss Lifelong Asset Building
Katie StalterThe following article originally appeared on The Center for Social Development's site and can be found here. Asset building policy is rapidly incre... -
Call for Applications - CYFI’s Youth Awards Championship
ANNOUNCEMENT
Anjana RaviChild and Youth Finance International recently announced the start of its Youth Global Movement in which children and youth can make their voices h... -
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... -
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... -
Takeaways & Best Practices from the CYFI Regional Meeting for the Americas and the Caribbean
Alejandra Montes Catherine Rodriguez OrgalesThe first Child and Youth Finance International Regional Meeting for the Americas and the Caribbean took place last month in México City. The meeti... -
Enidaso Account Opens A New Dawn In Child And Youth Financial Services In Ghana
Adadzewa OtooThe 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 ...