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New era, new data: Why ‘financial inclusion 2.0’ will require a different approach to measurement
Financial inclusion is entering a new era The movement’s first era – which we’ll call “Financial Inclusion 1.0” – lasted from 2000 to [...]
Shared is better than perfect
The past week has been a challenge for our team, as we analysed and weighted the data we are launching here. We set out with a very ambitious task, [...]
Digital platforms’ role in African digitisation and gig work on the back of COVID-19
Recent research by insight2impact shows the number of digital platforms – virtual marketplaces – in operation across Africa increased by 37% [...]
Insurance in the age of COVID-19: The pandemic highlights the need for a new approach
For the last decade, Cenfri and other development partners have focused our approach to insurance development on the welfare implications for [...]
CBDC — The next frontier of mobile money?
Many discussions around retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) today revolve around ambitious policy-focused use cases. Most recently, in the [...]
Maintaining inclusive innovation under COVID-19
In our previous article, we reflected on the different ways that stakeholders can ensure the Cape Town tech ecosystem produces valuable innovation [...]
Reducing the costs of migration: How better data can lead to better policy – and better prices – in migrant remittances
International migration has become such a pressing global issue that one can hardly read or watch the news without hearing about it. Migration is [...]
COVID-19 and financial health: Too ambitious a target for these times?
As Beth Rhyne captured in her recent blog on Nextbillion, before COVID-19 an alarmingly large portion of adults around the world were not financially [...]
Cape Town tech ecosystem: Strengthening inclusive innovation in a divided city
“The idea is that tensions and challenges in the city region also point to opportunities for innovation and that effectively harnessing the [...]
How innovation can boost jobs creation
Digital technologies are reshaping economic opportunities in Africa The spread of mobile phones has boosted access to digital financial services, [...]