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Financial Inclusion

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.”

Mobile Technology

Greased by mobile money, remittances may accelerate even more

Global remittances are on the rise. Now, coupled with mobile technology, cross-border payments are even more effective at spurring poverty alleviation, but women may lag behind.

Financial Inclusion

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.

Youth Skills

Rwanda's plan for digital dominance gets a Microsoft boost

Rwanda has the ambitious goal of becoming Africa's digital center. Microsoft4Afrika's expansion into the country is a significant step in that direction.

Mobile Technology

Coming to America: Mobile money. Why NGOs should care

Mobile money's wildfire spread across the developing world has been so successful that it's about to remake the rich world, too.

Financial Inclusion

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.