More financial services should target low-income households in South Africa.
Articles on Financial inclusion
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Nigeria needs to adopt gender specific strategies to financially include women smallholders in agriculture.
Mobile loan platforms have given Kenyans access to easy loans, but they come at a high price.
The closure of high street pawnbrokers like Albermarle and Bond might leave many without financial help.
Mobile money transfers have become the norm in Somalia. Transactions total as much as $2.7bn a month.
Mobile money transfers have been a great asset. But the rise of online betting could threaten its contribution.
Plans for China to rate its citizens for their trustworthiness have been depicted as uniquely Chinese. Don’t be so sure.
Grameen Bank has potential to increase financial inclusion in Australia but regulation is holding it back.
Banking in a highly financialised society like Britain could be seen as akin to a fundamental human right.
Entities at the centre of the storm engulfing South Africa’s social grants distribution system have claimed to be champions of financial inclusion. The claim in itself is scandalous.
The South African Social Security Agency has created a crisis that threatens to deliver social grant recipients on a silver platter into the hands of unscrupulous financial services companies.
The global push for financial inclusion could end up with unintended consequences.
In the global South, where some argue that “everyone is now middle class”, people are reluctant to acknowledge that they need to borrow money – and the stigma drives them to dodge their debts.
Financial inclusion has so far focused on enhancing a poor person’s cash flow. But it needs to involve more. Not enough consideration is given to encouraging poor people to build assets.
If women in developing countries are to enjoy the benefits of access to banking, it’s time for a rethink on how they are assessed for risk.
Top contributors
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Senior Research Associate, One Earth Future Foundation
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Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science
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PhD candidate, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor in FinTech & Information Systems, University of Southampton
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Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg
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Coventry University
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Associate Professor in the Study of Modern China, Lund University
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Senior Researcher: Institute of Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University
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Director: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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PhD Candidate in Financial Inclusion, University of the Witwatersrand
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Passionate about Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises | Marketing Executive | Master of Business Administration (MBA) | Digital Marketing Expert, University of Johannesburg
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Associate research scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Education and Development Coordinator, Centre for Rural Regional Law and Justice, Deakin University