Abrigo

JANUARY 17, 2024

Poverty and the lack of well-paying jobs are the key drivers of people being trafficked, so supporting these jobs for the most vulnerable is hugely impactful. Policies that promote the employment of former trafficking victims can help end cycles of trafficking, as well.

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TheGuardian

JANUARY 18, 2021

The best way to help those at the very bottom of society is to give them money directly. Whether it’s to feed hungry children or to ensure hundreds of thousands don’t slip into poverty by not cutting benefits from their current level, Mr Johnson seems unwilling to stump up the cash.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Modi stated that the illegal activities are among the “biggest obstacles in eradicating poverty” — with a bead being drawn on tax evaders, according to the BBC. As reported by the BBC , taking those notes out of the financial system represents an effort to stymie fraud efforts, corruption and what the site noted as “illegal cash holdings.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The change could mark a major step in India becoming a cashless society, though the private sector still has some work to do providing affordable mechanisms to replace the cash economy.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 23, 2016

If I had a genie in a bottle that granted me three wishes, I would shoot for grander goals such as world peace, end poverty, and ban Mariah Carey Christmas songs. In an evolved capitalist society, in my opinion, those "do-ers" would maximize their abilities and their legal/ethical earning power, and give their excess to worthy societal goals.

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Reducing friction offers another benefit – both for banks and for society. The World Bank considers financial inclusion “a key enabler to reduce extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity.”. If the potential profitability from two billion adults isn’t sufficient motivation, the societal benefit should be. Other blockchain benefits.

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Urs Bolt

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Financial Technology (Fintech) could help build an inclusive financial system which allows any group in society to enjoy more convenient financial services by lowering the threshold and costs of obtaining financing, said Wang Zhongmin, a former vice chairman of the National Council for the Social Society Fund, recently at the Hangzhou Bay Forum.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

Said Grobler, “Women, previously overlooked in the past when it came to financial inclusion and adoption of mobile phones, are proving they can help lift entire families and communities out of poverty once empowered. Mobile initiatives make sense in a world where cash, perhaps ironically, is not cheap.

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Bankelele

MARCH 2, 2015

His achievements were seen in gender equality (48% of parliamentarians are women) a focus on health (80% of HIV cases receive therapy and transmission rates are falling) and education, tackling poverty (social safety nets and disability grants) while grappling with challenges like the widening inequality.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

But all the places that are food deserts, according to the USDA, have some common overlapping features — the most outstanding being high rates of poverty and the ancillary effects that tend to follow it. Fighting food deserts and flipping them into food oases is no easy task.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. It’s positioned as the way to send money to people anywhere in the world in an instant and for free.

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TheGuardian

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Report claims up to 10% of the world’s wealth could be hidden offshore and calls for global banking reform Billions of people around the world are being trapped in poverty by systemic tax abuses, corruption and money laundering, according to a UN commission report calling for a global crackdown. Continue reading.

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TheGuardian

MAY 11, 2021

In Lebanon, where nearly half the population lives in poverty, food is about five times as expensive as it was in 2019. In Nigeria, food inflation rose to 22.95% in March. In Indonesia, tofu is now 30% more expensive than it was last year. In Russia, food prices rose 7.7% over the last year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The economist notes it is not “his” chart, as it is very similar to the charts more famously associated with Georgetown Professor Martin Ravallion’s book, “ The Economics of Poverty.”. The chart is meant to illustrate the extreme global poverty rate, measured as the share of humanity living on $1.90 per day is more reasonable.

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TheGuardian

AUGUST 23, 2020

Initiatives to help the most vulnerable in society to get access to banking services are being expanded Gary Mooney and Carl Boothroyd were released from prison in February this year. Then, just a few weeks later, they and everyone else around them, were put into lockdown. “I

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BankUnderground

APRIL 21, 2022

More importantly, however, I felt that the voices of the most vulnerable in society were not being sufficiently heard in many policy debates. This motivated my involvement in the Citizens Advice network, along with a statement on poverty in the UK by the United Nations Special Rapporteur that I found to be highly critical.

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TheGuardian

DECEMBER 27, 2020

There’s no sign that ministers will use the twin shocks of the pandemic and Brexit to fix a broken system that is failing too many people When the UK entered the coronavirus age in March, state resources and collective commitment were mobilised on a scale not seen since the second world war.

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Tech and Finance

APRIL 22, 2016

The world needs more migration, for growth, for reducing poverty, for sharing prosperity. Even if that makes both us and them poorer, our societies less interesting, and not necessarily safer.”. “Compared to the growth of international trade and investment flows, the increase in international migration is negligible.

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TheGuardian

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The autumn budget makes life harder for many on universal credit, say Robin Spencer and Carolyn Sutton , while Bernie Evans hopes it will provide ammunition for Labour, and Sebastian Monblat is baffled by the idea of cheaper booze If this chancellor of the exchequer has a skill, it is his sleight of hand, or ability to disguise a real cut as a supposed (..)

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

As you likely can imagine, the combination of low population density and poverty in many areas, both urban and rural, dampens the construction of large-scale supermarkets. Consider as one example the ongoing effort to eliminate so-called food deserts.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 17, 2017

To operate in society, we are all beholden to an economic system for which we require access to monetary and credit services to participate, be they formal or informal. Sadly, these typically come at the greatest cost to those who can least afford them (sometimes referred to as the poverty premium).

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Tomorrow's Transactions

JANUARY 25, 2016

The nice people at Westminster eForum invited me along to give one of the talks at their Digital Payments event at the Royal Society in London. from Woking in the morning and barely make it alive into Waterloo, scrabbling to keep up with things, sliding further and further into poverty as we are taxed to the hilt.

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Jessica Ellerm

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Classified as ‘unbanked’, they are said to present a serious challenge to governments when it comes to lifting their respective nations out of poverty and creating prosperity. And wherever there is poverty, you’ll find some derivative of a microfinance startup – government backed, non-profit, bank sponsored.

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