Development Blog
Unlocking the social and economic potential of savings groups in Tanzania: The potential US$175 million market
By Nathan Randall 18th Nov 2015
Despite promising advances and commitments to financial inclusion and mobile money, Tanzania remains home to millions of unbanked or under-banked people. Analysis of data about financial inclusion and savings groups sheds some light on the role that savings groups might…
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Unlocking a savings box at a meeting of the Amani Village Savings and Loan Association in Usangi village, Tanzania
IMF shows support for the positive impacts of financial inclusion of women
By Gerry Boyle 16th Nov 2015
While CARE has long believed that giving women access to savings, both informally and in the formal financial sector, is a key way to empower women economically, it is always good to have such an august institution as the IMF…
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A member of the Village Savings and Loan Association in Kawete, Uganda, carrying the savings box
Welcome to CARE International’s first ever Entrepreneur in Residence, Ken Banks. Ken will be spending time with us over the next year to help make sense of the increasingly complex world of social innovation and technology-for-development. So, what exactly is…
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Megan Gaventa writes: As I took part in CARE’s recent roundtable discussion, ‘Invisible Women in Global Value Chains: A Missed Opportunity?’, I couldn’t help but feel that the event was timely. Not just because it was part of CARE’s 70th…
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Hana Eliyas, a smallholder farmer in Ethiopia participating in the GRAD programme which aims to move food-insecure households towards value chain participation.
Within Reach webinar: How banks in emerging economies can grow profitably by being more inclusive
By Gerry Boyle 04th Nov 2015
Accenture and CARE International will discuss key findings from their report, Within Reach – How banks in emerging economies can grow profitably by being more inclusive, in a webinar on 19 November. This will be a chance for key stakeholders…
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Within Reach report: Banks have a $380 billion market opportunity in financial inclusion
By Gerry Boyle 04th Nov 2015
Within Reach, a new report launched on 5 November by CARE and Accenture, the global consulting firm, sets out how banks in emerging economies can grow profitably by being inclusive. At CARE we know that providing access to basic formal…
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The front cover and one of the illustrations from the Within Reach report
