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The potential of merchant payments in Cote d’Ivoire: What is the situation in the informal sector?

This blog helps us to understand merchant behaviour and barriers while looking at opportunities that will help in the adoption and active usage of mobile money merchant payment solutions among businesses in Cote D’ Ivoire.

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Agent Network Accelerator Research- Democratic Republic of the Congo

The population of the DRC is extremely dispersed in a country with low levels of education, a history of financial shocks, conflict and poor infrastructure. A recent study has shown that, even excluding the population in deep rural areas, only 2.3 million (12%) of the adult population have a bank account [1] . Despite these challenges, the number of […]

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Opportunities in digital financial services related to jobs in Sub-Saharan Africa

With over 10 to 12 million young people entering the job market yearly on the African continent, the private sector, despite its dynamism, cannot create enough jobs to absorb them. The global jobs crisis has exacerbated the vulnerability of young people in terms of (i) higher unemployment; (ii) lower quality jobs for those who find […]

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The Mor committee has delivered its report – What will the report deliver? (Part-I)

Analysing the Mor Committee report, MicroSave believes it will lay the foundation for the future financial institution architecture to deal with inclusion of those that are outside the formal financial system.

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The Aadhaar way

Can Aadhaar become rails of digital disbursement for subsidy payments? MicroSave presents case studies that show huge potential of Aadhaar for G2P payments.

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So many steps forward … And now one big step back

After the progress made on setting a regulatory and policy framework to enable financial inclusion, this blog raises concern over the decision that puts a cap of 1% for agent transaction.