Human Rights
How to Give Adolescent Girls Voice, Choice, and Control
A framework for programs focused on empowering adolescent girls.
Tag: Financial Inclusion
Business
Three Ways Businesses Can Improve Their Women’s Economic Empowerment Programs
Corporate programs that focus on women’s economic empowerment need to incorporate women-centered, context-specific design and business-aligned measurement from the start.
Philanthropy & Funding
Money as Medicine
A prescription for healing the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance.
Review
Economic Development
Money for Nothing
In Fair Shot, Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes makes the case for universal basic income.
Technology
Fintech for the Financially Excluded?
Financial technology has the potential to help lift millions out of poverty. But are we adequately assessing its risks?
Measurement & Evaluation
Do Financial Inclusion Efforts Really Have an Impact on Poverty?
Affordable, accessible financial products and services like mobile money are becoming more prevalent in the developing world, but are they improving the lives of the poor?
Social Enterprise
How to Help a Social Startup Thrive
Five rules of the road from a seed-stage investor in financial technology for the underserved.
Government
What’s Next for Financial Technology Innovation
Governments in emerging markets need to take a holistic approach to creating business environments that truly enable financial technology (FinTech) innovation.
Human Rights
Desegregating the Home-Sharing Economy
A collaboration between the NAACP and Airbnb is one of several new efforts to reduce racial discrimination on home-sharing platforms.
Civic Engagement
Breaking Barriers, Shifting Narratives, and Expanding Opportunity
By designing programs and policies to overcome longstanding systemic barriers in communities, we can expand opportunities for equity.