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Big Questions for the Youth Financial Inclusion Field: A Roundup From the 2013 YouthSave Annual Meeting
A few weeks ago, YouthSave project partners from around the world convened in Washington, DC for our annual Learning & Exchange Conference (LEC). W...
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Why Kenya Needs a Youth Financial Capability Policy
“The most effective way to influence positive financial behavior is when you put tools in the hands of young people – giving them the chance to own...
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Creating Financially Capable Youth: Is There an App for That?
Leading 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...
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Hope or Hype? Five Obstacles to Mobile Money Innovations for Youth Financial Services
By synthesizing the current opportunities and obstacles to using mobile-based tools to advance youth financial access and by assessing current opin...
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Mobile Money = Youth Financial Access Leapfrogger?
Leading 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...
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The Mobile Accelerator Theory of Youth Financial Access: Myth or Miracle?
Leading 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...
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"Beyond the Buzz" Blog Series to Launch Next Week
Leading 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...
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Beyond the Buzz: The Allure and Challenge of Using Mobile Phones to Increase Youth Financial Inclusion
The recent application of mobile phones for financial inclusion among adults and the rising use of mobile phones among youth suggest that mobiles c...
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Measure Twice, Cut Once: What Pilots Can Reveal About Serving YouthSavers
Almost 40,000 youth are now saving in accounts rolled out under the YouthSave project. But before scaling their youth savings accounts, three of ou...
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Business Case Webinar Roundup
Last week, the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) hosted a webinar entitled “Exploring the Business Case for Youth Savings,” which brough...
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Seeing the Opportunity and Business Case for Youth Finance
This is the third installment of our series, Policy Innovations in Youth Financial Services. The series has been an online continuation of the glob...
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Perspectives on Youth Financial Services in Egypt
This is the second installment of our series, Policy Innovations in Youth Financial Services. The series has been an online continuation of the glo...
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Introducing Ms. Zeenat Rahman as the Newest Member of the EAB
The YouthSave Consortium would like to welcome Ms. Zeenat Rahman as the newest member of its Expert Advisory Board (EAB). Ms. Rahman, who brings a ...
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Banking on Youth, Finance and Policy
This is the first installment of our series, Policy Innovations in Youth Financial Services. The series has been an online continuation of the glob...
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Launch of the "Policy Innovations in Youth Financial Services" Blog Series
As the number of people between the ages of 10 and 24 climbs to over 1.8 billion individuals globally, ensuring economic inclusion and opportunity ...
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Colombia Wins Global Money Week Award
At the second annual Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) Summit awards ceremony, held last week in Istanbul, Colombia received an award fo...
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How BoK Used Pilot Findings to Focus On What Really Matters
YouthSave’s bank partners began creating their youth savings accounts in 2010, with extensive market research that obtained firsthand information a...
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Mobile Phones for Microsavings: Can Mobile-Enabled Savings Products Bridge the Youth Financial Services Gap?
The following article originally appeared on the Center for Financial Inclusion Blog and can be found here. Many of the challenges to saving faced ...
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Young People: Access to Finance Using Branchless Banking
The following article, written by Monique Cohen, originally appeared on the Child & Youth Finance International Blog and can be found here. Within ...
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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 ...
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Getting to Know You(th): How Piloting Allowed HFC Bank to Sharpen Its Value Proposition for Young People
YouthSave’s bank partners began creating their youth savings accounts in 2010, with extensive market research that obtained firsthand information a...
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Kenya Postbank Pilot Experience
YouthSave’s bank partners began creating their youth savings accounts in 2010, with extensive market research that obtained firsthand information a...