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[Next Billion] The Vanishing American Dream: The Long Road to Financial Stability

By Jennifer Tescher / Tilman Ehrbeck Note: This post is one of NextBillion’s 12 most influential posts of 2018. Paying the mortgage and other household utilities should be relatively straightforward, but for the Johnson family, it isn’t always that simple. Sarah and Sam Johnson, one of the families profiled in...

HuffPost

[HuffPost] Why We're Excited About Technology Stacks for Financial Inclusion

Originally posted on HuffPost There are a lot of buzzwords out there when it comes to technology, so we try not to get caught up with each new fad. But everywhere we look, we see a concept that promises to be a powerful driver of not only innovation, but also...

Financial Services

[HuffPost] Pocket Einstein: Managing Your Finances in the 21st Century

Originally posted on HuffPost The ability to access and use financial services is critical to managing day-to-day life, weathering unexpected events, and capturing opportunities. Yet, some 46 percent of working-age adults in developing countries remain excluded from the formal financial system. That doesn't mean they don't use finance. It means...

African Vendor

[HuffPost] Why Is Financial Inclusion so High on the Development Agenda?

Originally posted on HuffPost In the sustainable development priorities for the next 15 years adopted by heads of states in New York this week, the United Nations has highlighted financial inclusion as an important enabler for poorer households in the informal economies of the global south to increase resilience and...

Financial Inclusion

[HuffPost] Vision and Discipline: How to Innovate for Increased Financial Inclusion

Originally posted on HuffPost Globally, some two billion working-age adults in emerging markets are excluded from the type of financial intermediation that we take for granted in the developed world: a transaction account to send and receive money; the ability to save for a rainy day; access to credit if...