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Pakistan Urban Link and Support

Welcome to the world of SMS-to-Internet community organizing! PULS is a community action network that lets you talk to people in the field, ask them questions, get instant updates, and mobilize action around specific locations - all through SMS. Follow the how-to guide below and sign-up as a volunteer. more...

Cellphone Banking

Mobile money allows users to pay for goods and services by using short message service (SMS) to transfer either local currency or mobile minutes. Mobile money can increase access to financial services. Microfinance institutions in particular can benefit from the use of mobile money. Unfortunately, regulatory and initial investment barriers currently prevent widespread adoption of mobile money. In this paper, we demonstrate that mobile money can serve as a poverty reduction tool by increasing more...

Microfinance to Foster Adaptation to Climate Change

Bangladesh
Much of the current policy debate on adaptation to climate change has focussed on estimation of adaptation costs, ways to raise and to scale-up funding for adaptation, and the design of the international  institutional architecture for adaptation financing. There is however little or no emphasis so far on actual  delivery mechanisms to channel these resources at the sub-national level, particularly to target the poor who are also often the most vulnerable to the impacts of more...

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