Kenya’s devolution has led to tangible improvements in everyday life in places that had long been left behind.
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Lifting the licensing ban is expected to strengthen banks and, possibly, competition.
The harms of digital lending, such as over-indebtedness, are increasingly being documented by researchers and in Kenyan media.
Pastoralist communities face barriers like poor infrastructure, illiteracy and government neglect.
Market-led microcredit innovations dominated by profit maximisation can harm the very vulnerable.
We spoke to poor M-Pesa customers in Kenya who said it had changed their lives.
Innovation in small-scale solar systems and mobile money systems is giving people in sub-Saharan Africa access to electricity at a lower cost than diesel or kerosene.
Successful policy interventions, especially those in the social realm influenced by the vagaries of human behaviour, don’t seem to travel well.
Redressing the balance can start from the bottom up.
The UN Sustainable Energy initiative has set the goal of ensuring sustainable energy for all by 2030. However, the international community still can’t overcome the problem of energy access.
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