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NEWS
Payment technology innovations useful for women with low literacy
The “Innovative Digital Payment Mechanisms Supporting Financial Inclusion” stocktaking report, released as part of the G20 leaders’ communiqué, is a tool for policy-makers to find new ways to bring digital payment systems to everyone. It highlights several ways that technology infrastructure, design, and delivery channels can help develop better ways of offering financial services. It also examines technological innovations that enable users with low literacy levels to access financial services, noting that this is an issue that disproportionately affects women.
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BLOG POST
Governments at UN Global Goals Summit highlight how financial inclusion empowers women
As the year comes to a close, we'd like to look back at some of the powerful speeches that governments delivered at the UN Global Goals Summit earlier this year. Peru and Indonesia noted the importance of reaching women with digital payment methods in order to achieve full financial inclusion. Additionally, the President of Tanzania, as well as Ministers from around the globe, stressed how digital payments and greater financial inclusion are helping their countries reach key Sustainable Development Goals.
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BLOG POST
Uganda farmers, majority women, use mobile technology to make digital payments
Just back from Uganda, Ms. Nicole Kresse of Chemonics International talks about the development of an innovative mobile money initiative. The Zirobwe Agaliawamu Agribusiness Training Association (ZAABTA) in Luweero has developed a mobile app that assists farmers find supplies and labor and then expedites digital payments. ZAABTA is an umbrella association of 142 farmer groups and more than 4,300 farmers, 53 percent of whom are women.
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REPORT
MIT Press Journal
The end of financial marginalization is in sight: Here's the roadmap
According to Kathleen McGowan, who advises USAID’s Global Development Lab on digital finance, and Priya Jaisinghani, Head of Digital Development for USAID’s Global Development Lab, two billion people around the world manage their already precarious financial lives without the help of tools the world’s banked population. This, they write in their paper, can and should be solved by investing in shared infrastructure “so that serving the poor isn’t just possible but profitable.”
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REPORT
A market-building approach to financial inclusion
Arjuna Costa and Tilman Ehrbeck of Omidyar Network argue in this thought-provoking paper in the MIT Press Journal that “distribution costs for traditional financial service models are too high,” making people in rural, sparcely populated areas hard to reach. Technology, they note, has the power to overcome physical barriers, but only if government policies are aligned to promote inclusion.
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REPORT
Chilling effect of anti-money-laundering policies for poor countries
The Centre for Global Development (CGD) has released a new report that examines how efforts to combat money laundering and terrorist financing can have a “chilling effect” on other digital financial transactions, such as the ability for migrants to send money home, or the ability of non-profit organizations to provide humanitarian assistance in post-disaster or post-conflict situations.
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