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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, [...]
Using transaction data for financial inclusion policy insights
Policymakers, development organisations and sometimes even private sector players, often rely on financial inclusion data uncovered through consumer [...]
Savings groups: Exploring the collective individualism of Kenyan women’s financial lives
As we reflect on International Women’s Month 2020, we look back on the different things we’ve learned about women’s financial needs, and all [...]
Financial health and the Coronavirus: Another failure to prepare
Like a well-plotted mystery, the story of how the novel coronavirus is affecting our world adds a new chapter every day. From today’s vantage [...]