Why financial inclusion matters in Bangladesh

Financial inclusion matters in Bangladesh. Access to formal financial services -- in payments, savings, credit, and insurance -- for financially excluded individuals transforms individual lives; and financial institutions can reach new customers creating a ripple effect that drives improvements across the economy.Jesse Jackson once said, 'capitalism without capital is just...

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Of 'thinking caps' & 'kings of shit'

In Cox's Bazar's Kutupalong refugee camp, where over half a million Rohingyas live, Oxfam's Salahuddin Ahmmed collects 60,000 of the estimated 1.8 million litres of "infectious human waste" each day for a processing plant. As Michael Hayes tells us in an informative article (Asia Times, March 06, 2019), Ahmmed has...

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