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Hundreds of millions of people live on the cash economy without the benefits of banking, affordable credit and other financial services.

Digital Solutions for Financial Inclusion

Worldwide, there are 1.7 billion people who are outside of the formal banking and financial system. They struggle with high fees and risky systems to undertake even simple financial transactions. Digital innovations offer new ways to bring them out of financial darkness.

Lotte Schou-Zibell

Discrimination Driving Gender Wage Gap in Indonesia

The conventional view of wage gaps between men and women is that they have been steadily narrowing over recent decades and this trend will inevitably continue as women achieve higher education levels and enter areas of the workforce which have been dominated by males in the past. Unfortunately recent evidence from Indonesia suggests that pay parity between the sexes remains some way off.
 

Kiyoshi Taniguchi

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Does Education Equal Wealth?

At an E-Camp: Social Accountability for Better Education Services held in the Philippines on 3-5 December, 2014, students from various countries in the Asia and Pacific region asked, “Is education still a way out of poverty?”

Haidy Ear-Dupuy

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Ebola: The Weakest Link Jeopardizes Everyone

More than a year ago, I was in Liberia as part of a team looking into its health system and health financing reforms. The country was still recovering from long years of civil strife. But Liberia was eager to be one of a growing number of countries which were aspiring to and pursuing universal health coverage (UHC). 

Eduardo P. Banzon