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Building the Business Case for Youth Financial Services: UNCDF, MasterCard Foundation provide lessons for financial services providers
Of the 1.2 billion youth in the world, 130 million are out of school, 45 percent live on less than US $2 a day, and 50 percent do not participate in the labor force. Is there a business case for creating financial products for them? YouthStart tested approaches for serving low-income young people in a sustainable manner, and their recent report aims to inform successful long- term strategy for financial service providers.
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- Education
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Targeting the Base of the Pyramid at Scale : How can large companies overcome internal barriers?
Over the past few months, we have worked with member representatives and experts toward dissecting one particular area: the internal barriers faced by large companies when they want to scale up inclusive business ventures. But we did not limit ourselves to highlighting problems; rather, we opted to couple each barrier to a set of proven solutions that leading companies in this space have adopted. The result is an issue brief titled Scaling up Inclusive Business – Solutions to overcome internal barriers.
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- Education, Impact Assessment