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Inclusive HIV/AIDS Relief
> Posted by Jeffrey Riecke, Communications Assistant, CFI Last week, the world celebrated World AIDS Day. Since its inception in 1988, it has bolstered action towards ending the AIDS epidemic,...
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Silos No More: Financial Inclusion for the Whole Value Chain
> Posted by Dan Norell, Senior Technical Advisor, World Vision Financial services and enterprise development practitioners often exist in their own separate silos—yet very poor producers need both...
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Gabriel Davel Proposes Tests for Credit Bubbles
> Posted by Elisabeth Rhyne, Managing Director, CFI The following post was originally published on the CGAP Blog. Gabriel Davel knows what he’s talking about, and so should you. Davel is the veteran...
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Inclusive Activity in Myanmar
> Posted by Jeffrey Riecke, Communications Assistant, CFI The World Economic Forum on East Asia was held last week in Myanmar. Following the country’s recent political and economic changes, the...
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Emerging Risks on China’s Path Towards Financial Inclusion
> Posted by Jeffrey Riecke, Communications Assistant, CFI Much of the financial world’s attention is directed at China and the global impact of fluctuations in its banking and financial markets....
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Moving Towards a More Financially Inclusive Ghana
> Posted by Merene Botsio, Financial Inclusion 2020 Project Coordinator, CFI The Financial Inclusion 2020 project at the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion is building a movement toward full...
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Retail Credit in Chile: Scourge or Solution?
> Posted by Claudio Storm Quinteros, Director Ejecutivo, Fondo de Solidaridad e Inversion Social de Chile The Financial Inclusion 2020 project at the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion is...
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Comparing Loans Like Gas Prices – Does it Work?
> Posted by Sonja E. Kelly, Fellow, CFI The Financial Inclusion 2020 project at the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion is building a movement toward full financial inclusion by 2020....
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South African Government Announces Action to Protect Consumers and Assist...
> Posted by Jeffrey Riecke, Communications Assistant, CFI To combat high and rising national over-indebtedness levels, last month the South African Minister of Finance and Minister of Trade and...
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A Fresh Look at Informal Finance in Chennai
> Posted by Amy Jensen Mowl and Ben Sprung-Keyser, Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai and Harvard College There is revived interest in the role of informal credit in...
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Product Spotlight: Microloans for the Top of the Pyramid
> Posted by Sonja E. Kelly, Fellow, CFI We live in an age of cash flow unpredictability. Here at CFI we’ve championed work like Portfolios of the Poor, which focuses on those at the base of the...
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Is Bigger [Data] Better?
> Posted by Sonja E. Kelly, Fellow, CFI Big data is sexy. It’s new, it’s hip, and we’re only beginning to explore its uses for increasing financial inclusion. McKinsey calls it “the next frontier,”...
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Green Loans, Microbusiness Vulnerability, Mobile Insurance – Top Picks of the...
> Posted by Center Staff This edition of top picks features posts that spotlight green loans reducing energy poverty, savings and loans to improve the vulnerability of microbusinesses, and factors...
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The Future of Creditworthiness
> Posted by Danielle Piskadlo, Manager, Investing in Inclusive Finance, CFI It is an exciting time at the nexus of technology and financial services. For assessing creditworthiness, for example,...
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Integrating Health and Microfinance in India
> Posted by Somen Saha, Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, with inputs from Marcia Metcalfe, Freedom from Hunger and Sabina Rogers, Microcredit Summit Campaign Microfinance institutions...
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‘Spent’ – Finding Change in the U.S. Financial System
> Posted by Allyse McGrath, Senior Associate, FI2020, CFI Once in a while, we in the Accion D.C. office gather in our state-of-the-art movie theater (a.k.a. conference room) for some collective...
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Accion Venture Lab Responds to ‘The Great Competition and Innovation Deficit’
#127306842 / gettyimages.com This is our first in a series of responses to the provocative post last week from Ignacio Mas. Ignacio asks why the “current innovation frenzy in digital financial services...
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The ‘Global Microscope 2014′: Results and Surprises
> Posted by Sonja Kelly, Fellow, CFI If there’s one thing we’ve learned in taking a close look at financial inclusion efforts around the world, it’s that context matters. That’s why we are excited...
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ROSCAs on the Rebound
> Posted by Stuart Rutherford and Paul Vander Meer ROSCAs, or rotating savings and credit associations¹, have enjoyed good press lately in the United States. The New York Times just ran a story...
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Cambodian Microfinance Market Records Big Growth. But Is It Healthy?
> Posted by Jeffrey Riecke, Communications Associate, CFI New data shows the Cambodian microfinance market disbursed $1.79 billion in loans over the first three quarters of 2014, amounting to a 51...
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