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Why You’re Paying Bitcoin’s Energy Bill | Chicago Booth Review

September 13, 2021

“Millions of people who have neither mined nor traded a bitcoin are nevertheless paying for bitcoins to exist. That’s because the vast computing power needed to create new bitcoins consumes enormous amounts of electricity and has driven up…

CARE tests cryptocurrency vouchers for aid delivery in Kenya, Ecuador | Devex

August 13, 2021

“[CARE] has teamed up with the Lab for Inclusive FinTech, or LIFT, a soon-to-be-launched initiative of the Institute for Business and Social Impact at UC Berkeley, in its Kenya pilot. LIFT will carry out focus groups to better understand the…

CARE Launches 1st Crypto Voucher Pilots in Kenya and Ecuador | CARE

August 12, 2021

“Mindful of the risks and focused on the potential, CARE has launched two first-of-their-kind pilots, partnering with leaders in the cryptocurrency movement to deliver crypto-based vouchers to women and groups in Africa and Latin America. The…

Money Moves | Haas alumni ride the wave of fintech revolution | Haas Newsroom

July 13, 2021

“Fintech applications are increasingly disrupting many aspects of everyday life: from how we pay for our coffee to how we trade stocks and apply for a mortgage,” says Professor Paul Gertler, the Li Ka Shing Professor of Economics and faculty…

Testing financial innovations: Increasing loan repayment using digital collateral | VoxDev

June 18, 2021

“There is a general consensus that households in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have insufficient access to credit. Twenty years ago, economists were optimistic that microfinance would fill this void, yet most of the evidence…

A New Approach to Lending in Low- and Middle-Income Countries | NBER

June 01, 2021

“While microfinance has not broadly succeeded in relaxing credit constraints for the poor in low- and middle-income countries, a new form of credit using “digital collateral” is effective, a study by Paul Gertler, Brett Green, and…

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