New issuance of SDRs is vital to help poorer countries
Desperate need for a collective solution to Emerging Market credit crisis. https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/59dc3251-8e44-42ee-85b1-93d34fb8c8c6 via @FT
How to design PAYGo operational models to improve repayment
https://medium.com/f4life/how-to-design-paygo-operational-models-to-improve-repayment-f3477119392
Cocoa Cartel Stirs Up Global Chocolate Market – The Wall Street Journal.
Cocoa Cartel Stirs Up Global Chocolate Market I truly hope smallholder farmers receive the premium as intended. https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-cocoa-cartel-could-overhaul-global-chocolate-industry-11578261601
The Economist – Shared Article ‘Schools of hard knocks’
The Economist | Schools of hard knocks An important experiment in education reveals mixed results. https://www.economist.com/node/21777603?frsc=dg%7Ce
Silicon Valley-Backed App Lenders Use Phone Data to Chase Borrowers – The Wall Street Journal.
Silicon Valley-Backed App Lenders Use Phone Data to Chase Borrowers https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-backed-app-lenders-use-phone-data-to-hassle-borrowers-11574969095
Mobile money: A product of choice for women to send and receive remittances
https://www.ifad.org/en/web/latest/blog/asset/41410919
Mobile money is not helping Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation
Mobile money is not helping Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation – Dangers on a completely digital economy https://on.ft.com/2WluK18 via @FT
Utz finds alarming problems at four cocoa-certifying firms – The Washington Post
More evidence cocoa and coffee certification process is broken https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/23/chocolate-companies-say-their-cocoa-is-certified-some-farms-use-child-labor-thousands-are-protected-forests/
Financial Inclusion Has a Big Role to Play in Reaching the SDGs
The contribution of financial inclusion to SDGs can be powerful. https://www.cgap.org/blog/financial-inclusion-has-big-role-play-reaching-sdgs
Workers exploited at farms supplying UK supermarkets: report
Workers exploited at farms supplying UK supermarkets: report https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/10/workers-exploited-at-farms-supplying-uk-supermarkets-report?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress