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How to Save the World Bank

Vishnu Sridharan provides some out-of-the-box advice to Jim Yong Kim on how the World Bank can better achieve its mission of reducing poverty.
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The G2P Opportunity

Jamie Zimmerman and Jamie Holmes explore five reasons why now is the time to leverage social protection to enable financial inclusion and savings among the poorest.
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Photo: Jan Chipchase, Mazar e Sharif, 2010.

Dialing Down Corruption in Afghanistan

Anjana Ravi and Eric Tyler discuss how mobile money can be used to fight corruption in Afghanistan and how m-payment systems are integral to the country's security, stability, and economic future.
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Mobile Phones Will Not Save the Poorest of the Poor

Jamie Zimmerman discusses how the cost of cellphone-based financial services is hurting huge swaths of the developing world
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Mapping the Potential for Wealth Creation Through Cash Transfers

NAF's Global Savings and Social Protection initiative is excited to release its first heat-mapping of different countries' potential to implement savings-linked social protection programs.
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Photo: Jan Chipchase, Mazar e Sharif, 2010.
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Articles and Op-Eds

5 Ways Jim Yong Kim Can Save the World Bank
April 18 | Foreign Policy
Vishnu Sridharan
The G2P Opportunity
April 17 | Enterprise Development & Microfinance
Jamie Holmes
Jamie M. Zimmerman
Dialing Down Corruption in Afghanistan
April 16 | Foreign Policy
Anjana Ravi
Eric Tyler
Mobile Phones Will Not Save the Poorest of the Poor
February 09 | Slate
Sascha Meinrath
Jamie M. Zimmerman
Are Mobile Solutions Overhyped?
February 07 | CNN
Eric Tyler
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Tracking Progress Toward Financial Access
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 3:30pm | Washington
Mobile Disconnect: Can Mobile Solutions Really Combat Global Poverty?
Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 3:30pm | Washington
SPINNAKER - FSD Industry Workshop
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 9:00am | Nairobi, Kenya
Transforming Intentions into Behaviors
Monday, June 27, 2011 - 12:30pm | Washington
The Case for Youth Savings
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 3:30pm | Washington
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Mobile Disconnect: Can Mobile Solutions Really Combat Global Poverty?

Nearly 6 billion mobile-cellular subscriptions exist worldwide, and mobile penetration has reached 87 percent globally, according to the International Telecommunications Union. However, the case of mobile money and the oft-glamorized example of Kenya’s M-PESA provides a cautionary exemplar of both the potential and the limitations of mobile solutions. At root, we must ask one central question concerning mobile solutions to the growing ICT4D field: what does it really take to combat global poverty?

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Global Assets Project Staff

Jamie Holmes
Jamie Holmes
Policy Analyst, Global Assets Project

Jamie Holmes is a Policy Analyst with the Global Assets Project. Before...

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Andy Hull
Web Developer

Andy Hull is a Web Developer in the Global Assets Project where he provides...

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Anjana Ravi
Research Associate, Global Assets Project

Anjana Ravi is a research associate for the Global Assets Project at the New...

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Vishnu Sridharan
Program Associate, Global Asset Project

Vishnu Sridharan is a program associate with the Global Assets Project....

Nicole Tosh
Nicole Tosh
Research Associate, Global Assets Project; Staff Assistant

Nicole Tosh is a Research Associate in the Global Assets Project where she...

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Eric Tyler
Program Associate, Global Assets Project

As a program associate for the Global Assets Project, Eric Tyler provides...

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Jamie M. Zimmerman
Director, Global Assets Project, Asset Building Program

Jamie M. Zimmerman is Director of the Global Assets Project at the New...

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