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Can Mobile Money Transform a Country?
Two years after the earthquake, Haiti is rebuilding not just brick by brick, but click by click. The earthquake left behind a government in rubble, an economy in shambles, and a people living in makeshift camps, coping with enormous loss. Against this backdrop, the possibility of progress lives not just in the resilient spirit of [...]
Embracing Innovation in Haiti: USAID’s Haiti Mobile Money Initiative
By: Mark Feierstein, USAID Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean One of the hallmarks of the U.S. Government’s fresh approach to development in Haiti is making better use of innovative private sector ideas to solve tough development challenges. So when one third of Haiti’s bank branches were destroyed in the earthquake a year [...]
