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• Tax Reform: The Options

  
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  As part of their effort to reform the tax code, the House Ways and Means Committee created a series of working groups and put out a call for public comment on tax reform ideas. Appropriately enough, submissions to the working groups faced an April 15th deadline, and since then the Joint Committee on Taxation has ...
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• Accions Venture Lab Closes Initial Investments in Financial Inclusion Start-Ups

  
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  Accions Venture Lab Closes Initial Investments in Financial Inclusion Start-Ups Boston, MA/Washington D.C. (PRWEB) May 07, 2013 Today, Accion announced the first five investments by Venture Lab, its $ 10 million seed capital initiative, which invests in start-up companies that help expand global financial inclusion. A ...
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• Californias Innovative Response to the Coming Retirement Security Crisis

  
  NewAmerica.net Blog Posts — Authority: 136
  Its hardly news that traditional pensions have almost disappeared from the private workforce, personal savings are low, and Social Security benefits face political and actuarial threats. But the story that needs more attention among those concerned with retirement security is how the rise of the 401(k)-type plan as a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Can Mobile-Enabled Savings Products Bridge the Youth Financial Services Gap?

  
  NewAmerica.net Blog Posts — Authority: 136
  Editors note: This post was authored by Julia Arnold, a Research Fellow with the Global Assets Project, and originally appeared on the Center for Financial Inclusions blog . Many of the challenges to saving faced by the world’s poorest people were highlighted in the recent Washington Post article ...
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• Bank rules already hinder inclusion and widen the gap

  
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  Sir, Alfred Hannig in his letter “ Rules shouldn’t hinder inclusion ” writes about the importance of finding a balance in financial regulations between the need of protecting the banks from systemic risks and the need for the inclusion of those currently without access to the financial system. And he is of ...
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• Sterling rises sharply versus the euro and US dollar after better than expected UK GDP data

  
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  “The pound rose sharply versus the euro and US dollar after today’s first-quarter 2013 UK GDP data suggested the economy avoided an unprecedented triple-dip recession by a wider than expected margin. Sterling remains some 2% lower versus the dollar compared to three months ago.” Chris Saint, Head of Currency ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mattresses, Infidelity & Community: A Model for Innovation in Emerging Markets

  
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  Mobile connectivity is creating and enabling new approaches to markets which have traditionally been hard to crack.  For emerging economies, connectivity can improve everyday life for the poorest if companies find a sustainable model for reaching new consumers and understand the complex canvas of emerging markets. ...
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• A Model for Innovation in Emerging Markets

  
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  Mobile connectivity is creating and enabling new approaches to markets which have traditionally been hard to crack.  For emerging economies, connectivity can improve everyday life for the poorest if companies find a sustainable model for reaching new consumers and understand the complex canvas of emerging markets. ...
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• The Rise of the Dynamic Welfare State

  
  NewAmerica.net Blog Posts — Authority: 136
  Earlier this month, President Obama released his budget for the next fiscal year. The budget can be thought of as a large set of “asks” for Congress to consider, including funding levels for existing programs and proposed changes to tax policies. It’s incumbent upon the executive branch to justify each of its ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Other Shoe Drops on Payday Lenders

  
  NewAmerica.net Blog Posts — Authority: 136
  As it turns out, consumer advocates might have underestimated the impact of payday loans on consumers. We have written pretty extensively about the debt trap or cycle of borrowing that short-term, high-cost loans have on consumers. We are now getting real data and first impressions are that it is worse than we ...
  3 weeks ago

• Asset Building News Week, April 15-19

  
  NewAmerica.net Blog Posts — Authority: 136
  The Asset Building News Week is a weekly Friday feature on The Ladder, the Asset Building Program blog, designed to help readers keep up with news and developments in the asset building field. This weeks topics include housing, unemployment, financial products, taxes, and inequality. Housing and Homeownership ...
  4 weeks ago

• Prize-Linked Savings 101

  
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  After our event on "prize-linked savings" yesterday, I sat down with Joanna Smith-Ramani of D2D and recorded a short podcast focused on the basics. What are prize-linked savings? Where did the idea come from? Can giving people prizes really help to induce more savings? Whats happening with this idea now? You can ...
  4 weeks ago

• Event Summary: Jackpot: Using Lotteries to Promote Personal Savings

  
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  Yesterday we hosted an event along with our partners at the Doorways to Dreams Fund (D2DFund) to examine the potential of lottery-style programs and products to promote personal savings. The idea of “prize-linked savings” (PLS) emerged out of the observation that while many Americans enjoy playing the lottery ...
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• Comments of the Asset Building Program to the House Ways and Means Committees Pensions/Retirement Tax Reform Working Group

  
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  April 15, 2013 The House Ways and Means Committee created a series of working groups to investigate problems with the tax code and solicit suggestions for reform. The Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation is dedicated to incubating and promoting innovative public policies to enable ...
  4 weeks ago

• Refund to Savings: A Savings Nudge at Tax Time

  
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  This post is co-authored by Krista Holub, a program manager for the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis and works primarily on the Refund to Savings initiative, focusing on development, implementation, and research; and David Rothstein, a research fellow in the Asset Building ...
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• The changing landscape of financial inclusion

  
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  Today, there is broad recognition that access to capital is only one of the inputs required for economic development and poverty alleviation. Furthermore, the marginalised — like anyone — require and use a variety of financial services for a variety of purposes. And some of these services work better than others, ...
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