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Multi-Stakeholder Meeting Highlights Youths' Experience with Saving
On August 23rd, the YouthSave Consortium convened a Multi-Stakeholder Meeting, entitled “Youth & Their Money: Insights into the Financial Lives of ...
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Personal Reflections from YouthSave’s Learning & Exchange Conference in Kathmandu
In August, the YouthSave Consortium and partners came together in Kathmandu, Nepal, for our third Learning & Exchange Conference, to update each ot...
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Kenya Postbank Launches SMATA Youth Account
On July 12 YouthSave partner Kenya Postbank officially launched its new “SMATA” youth account with festivities at the Ofafa Jericho high school in ...
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Youth Savings Performance in Ghana, Kenya, and Nepal: Results from Pilot
Are YouthSave accounts attracting low-income youth? Are youth making deposits into their YouthSave accounts? Are there adjustments that would help ...
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Rani Deshpande and Ruth Dueck-Mbeba Share Insights on Youth and Their Money
At the recent YouthSave event, Youth and Their Money, Rani Deshpande, Director of YouthSave at Save the Children, and Ruth Dueck-Mbeba, Program Man...
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NEW DATA - Teens in Poor Nations Seek to Save More Money For the Future
Teens 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...
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Youth Savings - Finding the Right Financial Tools at the Right Age
The following article originally appeared on NextBillion.net. With a third of the global population today under the age of 19 and 90 percent of the...
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Beyond Capital Gains: The Multiplier Effect of Youth Savings
The following article originally appeared on CGAP. In a recent New York Times article, Nick Kristof told the story of Alfred Nasoni, a farmer who p...
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A Glimpse into the Financial Lives of Ghanaian Youth: Findings from YouthSave’s Ghana Experiment Baseline Survey
Do 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...
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Driving Financial Inclusion Through Innovation in Kenya
The increasing development of Kenya’s banking sector has allowed many people to have access to savings, especially those without prior access to fi...
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What Does the ‘Business Case’ for Youth Savings Really Mean?
The business case for youth savings is one of the most talked-about topics in the youth financial services space. There is tremendous interest from...
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Creating Creatures of Habit: Nudging Saving in Youth
Practitioners, policy makers, and researchers often assert the importance of individuals developing savings behaviors. For the poor, especially, wh...
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YouthSave’s Multi-Stakeholder Meeting Convenes Financial Capability Experts in Colombia
On June 14th, Save the Children in Colombia hosted the first YouthSave Multi-Stakeholder Meeting (MSM), which brought together representatives from...
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Increasing Economic Citizenship Among Children and Youth
Recently, the Citi Foundation asked members of its Research Working Group to write a paper analyzing the existing literature on the key components ...
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Latest Quarterly YouthSave Newsletter Released!
ANNOUNCEMENT
To access this quarter’s newsletter click here. Newsletter Highlights Event Updates: YouthSave will hold Multi-Stakeholder Meetings in Colombia and...
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Building Communities of Practice: The Recent “Innovations in Youth Savings” Workshop in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Around the world, girls as young as 10 years old accumulate money regularly, manage it actively, and want a safe place to save it. Unfortunately, f...
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Towards a New Model for International Research Collaboration: Reflections on the April YouthSave Research Advisory Council Convening and Symposium
On April 17, 2012, a Symposium on International Research and Innovation at Washington University in St. Louis highlighted the experiences and insig...
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Savings Song Launches YouthSave's Financial Education Workshops in Colombia
As part of the overall Financial Capability strategy for Colombia, Save the Children has conducted several launch events in the same schools where ...
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Evaluating School-Based Financial Education Programs: What Can We Learn from Field Evidence?
Recently, I attended “Conversations that Build and Strengthen Youth Economic Opportunities” hosted by Making Cents International. The event feature...
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YouthSave Newsflash: Bank of Kathmandu Launches Youth Savings Account for Low-Income Youth
The YouthSave Consortium is pleased to announce that on April 25th, the Bank of Kathmandu (BoK) launched its “BoK Chetanshil Yuwa Bachat Yojana (CY...
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My Account, My Future: Youth Feedback and Other Observations from the Pilot Evaluation in Kenya
As part of the YouthSave project, PostBank in Kenya recently launched a pilot of a new savings product for young people, called “SMATA,” youth slan...