Technology
A Cashless Economy Is No Utopia
The future of money may be digital, but we must not underestimate the resilience and freedom that cash offers.
Tag: Mobile Money
Philanthropy & Funding
China’s New Model of Blockchain-Driven Philanthropy
Blockchain has done more than simply enable Chinese social entrepreneurs to improve the transparency, trustworthiness, and fundraising of the country’s charitable causes. It has helped launch a more decentralized and autonomous philanthropic sector.
Philanthropy & Funding
The #GivingTuesday Model
The social sector has a lot to learn from the innovation network that has emerged from the post-Thanksgiving global giving movement.
Review
Economic Development
Money for Nothing
In Fair Shot, Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes makes the case for universal basic income.
Economic Development
The Future of Banking for the Poor: Lessons from India
How combining “high-tech” and “high-touch” support can improve global financial health.
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Banking on the Poor
Using the off-grid solar revolution to unlock credit for low-income customers in Africa.
Energy
Get Rid of the Grid?
An emerging business model that aims to reduce energy poverty holds real promise. But it needs a jump-start.
Economic Development
Making Cash Pay Off
GiveDirectly relies on high tech and hard data to test whether large cash transfers can alleviate extreme poverty.
Technology & Design
Taking Mobile Money to the Next Level
For mobile money services to evolve, providers need to support all the activities that go on before, during, and after customers make payments.
Technology & Design
The Challenge of Scaling Digitally
The role of emerging technologies in traditionally “high-touch” development organizations—insights from BRAC’s recent Frugal Innovation Forum.