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Musings on the Wars on Poverty
This month the U.S. celebrated the 50-year mark for its domestic War on Poverty. Pundits from the left, right, and everywhere in between opined on ...
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Attention to Global Youth Issues is on the Rise
March and April 2014 have been big months for the world’s youth in terms of inclusion in development and planning agendas. As concerns about the to...
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The Benefit of Savings: Youth Write In
The youth in Kenya were an excited lot as the long-awaited Global Money Week was finally approaching. Marketed and organized by Kenya Post Office S...
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Cash Is King, Even When It Phones In
This is the first installment of our series, Bringing the Bank to the Unbanked While Making Bank. The series explores how some private sector enter...
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Treasure at the Bottom of the Pyramid
This is the second installment of our series, Bringing the Bank to the Unbanked While Making Bank. The first post in the series drew the conclusion...
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Global Money Week 2014
Global Money Week, a yearly worldwide celebration organized by the Child and Youth Finance International Secretariat aimed at empowering "the next ...
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Peer-to-Peer Financial Education Takes Off in Kenya Project
Peer education has been defined as: "An approach which empowers young people to work with other young people, and which draws on the positive stren...
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“Bringing the Bank to the Unbanked, While Making Bank” Blog Series to Launch This Month
For the past four years YouthSave has worked with partner financial institutions in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya and Nepal to extended tailored savings p...
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YouthSavers in Nepalgunj, Nepal Share Their Thoughts
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...
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Extending the Frontiers of Financial Inclusion to Children and Youth in Ghana
The conference came against the backdrop of ongoing efforts by the government to develop a national financial inclusion policy for the country. Thu...
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Banking on a Future
Financial inclusion is a vital cause in developing and developed nations alike - from the countries where YouthSave works, to our own backyard here...
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The Global Assets Project 2013 Recap is Out!
We are pleased to announce that New America's Global Assets Project has just released its latest newsletter, recapping the past year jam-packed wit...
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Riding Financial Inclusion Disruption: Are Youth Savers the Surfers or the Wave?
The following article, written by YouthSave's very own Rani Deshpande of Save the Children, originally appeared on the Center for Financal Inclusio...
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A Column Focused on Sri Lanka: Economic Inclusion of All Segments of Society for Economic Empowerment
The Daily Financial Times recently published an article entitled, "Economic Inclusion of All Segments of Society for Economic Empowerment." The imp...
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Looking Beyond Headcount: An Interview with Bank of Kathmandu CEO Ajay Shrestha
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...
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El Ahorro es Importante - Saving is Important
Just this past May we were very proud to announce that Colombia received the country award for their 2013 Global Money Week activities during the s...
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Youth Savings Uptake: Nature or Nurture?
This is the third and final installment of our latest blog series, Understanding YouthSavers, which highlights the findings of CSD's recent report,...
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If You Build It Who Will Come?
This is the second installment of our latest blog series, Understanding YouthSavers, which highlights the findings of CSD's recent report, Savings ...
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Taking the Bank to the Youth
This is the first installment of our latest blog series, Understanding YouthSavers, which highlights the findings of CSD's recent report, Savings P...
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"Understanding YouthSavers" Blog Series to Launch This Week
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...
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Is Mobile Finance for Youth a Dream Come True? An Infographic Explains Why It's Not Yet
It is getting harder and harder to discuss youth financial inclusion without heralding mobile technology. The mobile phone seems to have stolen the...
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Saving Themselves: Why Young People Are Asking for Better Savings Services
The following article, written by YouthSave's very own Rani Deshpande of Save the Children, originally appeared on Next Billion Financial Innovatio...