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The Global Findex Database 2017

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Huffington Post, "2 billion adults without this one thing are excluded from the global economy" (May 2017)
Forbes, "Banks need to focus on a new customer: the unbanked" (May 2017)
Business Report (South Africa), "How South Africans save their money" (June 2017)
Financial Nigeria, "WorldRemit integrates with Android Pay for mobile-to-mobile money transfers" (June 2017)
Vice Money, "Net worth: The cryptocurrency disruption" (June 2017)
World Economic Forum, "Two billion people lack access to a bank account. Here are 3 ways blockchain can help them" (June 2017)
IMF, "Cash is dead, long live cash" (June 2017)
Reuters, "Fintech lingo explained" (June 2017) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fintech-explainer-idUSKBN19D29I
Bangkok Post, "Financial inclusion a core philanthropic goal" (July 2017)
The Nation (Pakistan), "Zakat collection: Could it be a forward to end poverty?" (July 2017)
PWC, "Women unbound: Unleashing female entrepreneurial potential" (July 2017)
GSMA, "Integrating mobile money and e-commerce: What are the challenges to overcome?" (July 2017)
U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, "Testimony of Professor Tavneet Suri, MIT Sloan School of Management: Beyond Microfinance: Empowering Women in the Developing World" (July 2017)
Devex, "Three 'model countries' selected for a new financial inclusion initiative" (July 2017)
Forbes, "How emerging markets and blockchain can bring an end to poverty" (July 2017)
Bloomberg, "Battle for 261 million wallets grips China's online shopping giants" (July 2017)
Huffington Post, "How blockchain Is redefining the future of commerce" (August 2017)
Business Insider, "The world's 2 billion unbanked, in 6 charts" (August 2017)
Forbes Africa, "Slaves to debt: Oh, what we owe!" (August 2017)
London School of Economics, "Africa: Most expensive continent to send money in the world" (September 2017)
Economic and Political Weekly (India), "Involuntary exclusion and the formal financial sector" (September 2017)
The Economist, "Digital technology can make financial struggles easier to manage" (September 2017)
Huffington Post, "On women financial inclusion: Phones, access and digital literacy" (October 2017)
Devex, "This new tool is the latest effort by the Gates Foundation to bring innovation to payment infrastructure" (October 2017)
Cointelegraph, "Global lending system can be improved with blockchain" (October 2017)
The Ugandan, "Equity Bank's EazzyBanking App set to dominate Ugandan market" (October 2017) http://theugandan.com.ug/equity-banks-eazzybanking-app-set-dominate-ugandan-market/
Pakistan Today, "Ministry of Commerce finalizes draft of e-commerce policy" (October 2017)
The Economist, "In dirt-poor Myanmar, smartphones are transforming finance" (October 2017)
The Uganda Independent, "Banking on the unbanked" (November 2017)
The Daily Telegraph, "Banks and insurers dial into world's poorest" (November 2017)