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Interesting blog from UNCDF on the types of investments that the poorest households make in Bangladesh: https://spark.adobe.com/page/sPtBExAtOVr8y/

Aflatoun International, an NGO offering social and financial education to children and young people worldwide, and L-IFT are joining forces to find out how digital connectedness impacts financial choices and decisions of young people in developing countries. Click on the … Continued

Blog written by Anne Marie for SEEP on savings groups. Access the blog via the link: https://seepnetwork.org/Blog-Post/All-You-Ever-Wanted-to-Know-About-Savings-Groups-Evidence-based-Insights-on-Participation-in-SGs

CGAP approached L-IFT to investigate people’s understanding and ideas about Pay-As-You-Go solar financing. Click on the link below to access the blog and learn more about the findings: http://www.cgap.org/blog/remote-lockouts-dark-side-pay-you-go-solar

Blog from UNCDF CleanStart on Musa’s journey former FEDU researcher. Click on the link below to access the blog: https://spark.adobe.com/page/rerAJaFHZ9djm/

In this blog, we want to explore the effectiveness to use the PPI score as a wealth level proxy in a straightforward manner, based on the recent financial and energy diaries Uganda (FEDU) that L-IFT completed in April 2017. For … Continued

When I look up the word “smooth” the Merriam –Webster dictionary tells me:                   But those familiar with financial diaries know smooth’s opposites best: lumpy, rocky, spiked, uneven, rough. That’s what low-income … Continued

In the former blog we looked at the downsides students experience with the current dominant money system in use, i.e. banks and ATMs. It clearly came out that they are in need for a system, which makes their lives easier. … Continued

Digital Money is an unknown concept for students in Ethiopia. We have conducted several interviews with students from different regions. All of our respondents, except one, do not use digital money, neither do they know what it means. Although they … Continued

“On virtually every global measure, women are more economically excluded than men”, discloses the World Bank’s Gender at Work report 2014, even though growth in many emerging markets is heavily dependent on women. [1] Female entrepreneurs face great challenges when … Continued