Editor's pick
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Is India's new financial inclusion strategy already outdated?
Plans to extend the reach of traditional bank seems so old-fashioned. Wouldn't mobile money be quicker and cheaper, asks Esha Chhabra
Latest on financial inclusion
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40% of Ecuadorian adults don’t have a bank account, but is their new ‘currency’ more about escaping the US dollar?
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How can we close the gap in extending financial services to women and other excluded populations? Register now to attend on 10 October, 8 - 11am, in Washington DC
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47 years on from the invention of the ATM, where will you still struggle to find one?
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Mobile phones are facilitating access to utilities in poor rural communities. But do consumers have the faith to go cashless? Rachel Banning-Lover investigates
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Strive Masiyiwa, founder of the pan-African telecommunications company, talks to Anna Leach about extending finance to the unbanked
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Financial services reform has led to more policies being taken out by the poorest families. But exploitation is also on the rise, says Patricia McCracken
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Our expert panel give their top tips on taking a great technology idea from pilot phase to a reach of millions
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Using digital finance to tackle development problems can improves lives, and offer innovative companies handsome rewards. Erin Scronce explains
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The finance model was supposed to help the country's disenfranchised, but has just pushed them further into debt
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Priya Jaisinghani on how USAid is supporting mobile innovation without picking individual winners and distorting local markets
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About the Guardian financial inclusion campaign
Seen our new financial inclusion hub and wondered what it's all about? GDPN editor, Eliza Anyangwe, explains all
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See how Care is innovating to connect Village Savings and Loan Associations to mobile banking
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Stephen Kehoe on Visa's vision for financial inclusion
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Women’s World Banking and Nigeria’s Diamond Bank take the Lagos markets by storm with a no frills bank account for low-income customers. All photographs: Women’s World Banking
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From the Global Development Professionals Network
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Donors must stop earmarking funds to tackle nutrition emergencies that don’t make the headlines
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NGOs must acknowledge the risks to livelihoods and food security and teach smallholders to diversify for higher profits, writes Joshua Smith
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