Financial Inclusion

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Poor and unbanked in India? The government has 12 digits for you

India is the first nation aiming to achieve greater financial inclusion for its citizens by issuing biometrically verified personal ID numbers.

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Visualizing Financial Inclusion (and Shaping It)

Want to see just how fast financial inclusion is spreading? Just map it.

An underrated road out of poverty: Saving money

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Seeking Opportunity in Unlikely Places: Mercy Corps' Elizabeth Berthe

Elizabeth Berthe, Mercy Corps’ newest social innovations team member, has been creating businesses with her dad since she was eight years old. "You know how some people flip houses? We flipped businesses.”

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An underrated road out of poverty: Saving money

The global poor already prefer savings to loans, but add in an additional monetary incentive to save and piggy banks begin to fill even faster.

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Interview: Mobile services a ‘game changer’ for financial inclusion

Pairing information access with mobile cash services opens new doors for farmers and other low-income residents of developing countries.

New mobile credit tool will unleash Ugandan farmers' potential

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Unleashing Ugandan farmers’ potential through mobile phones

A powerful new mobile platform combining agriculture information and financial services specifically designed for farmers in Uganda is going live, helping them plow even more value from each acre.

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Fiji students are about to become the world's savviest savers

Fiji is leading the world in money management education, by exposing almost 200,000 students to savings and budgeting skills starting next month.

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Quotable: Africa alone has more mobile money users than Facebook does worldwide

There are now more mobile money activity users in Africa than there are users of Facebook.

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Mobile-powered and dirt cheap, Bima is revolutionizing microinsurance

Bima, a young Swedish microinsurance company, is using mobile phones to sell as many as three billion new insurance policies to the global poor.

New bank for the rural poor: The post office

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Book Review: A firsthand look at Kiva entrepreneurs across the globe

In an ideal world, microfinance is the perfect mechanism for alleviating financial stress on new and small businesses. But how well does it work in real life?

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The new bank for rural poor: The post office

Post offices in Nigeria are becoming surrogate bank branches for the unbanked rural poor, under a government project launched last month.

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Two ways to get farm loans where they're needed most: the boonies

To get small staple-crop farmers the loans they need, lenders must use new approaches tailored to the 90 percent of smallholders not in farmer organizations.