Market-led microcredit innovations dominated by profit maximisation can harm the very vulnerable.
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We spoke to poor M-Pesa customers in Kenya who said it had changed their lives.
Innovation in small-scale solar systems and mobile money systems is giving people in sub-Saharan Africa access to electricity at a lower cost than diesel or kerosene.
Successful policy interventions, especially those in the social realm influenced by the vagaries of human behaviour, don’t seem to travel well.
Redressing the balance can start from the bottom up.
The UN Sustainable Energy initiative has set the goal of ensuring sustainable energy for all by 2030. However, the international community still can’t overcome the problem of energy access.
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Director, Centre for India & Global Business, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Reader in Geography, University of Sussex
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Lecturer, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex
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African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS), Philosophy Department, University of Johannesburg
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Research Associate - Sustainable Energy, University of Waterloo
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Reader in IT Management, De Montfort University
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Doctoral Candidate specialising in the Digital Transformation of Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (through the Sharing Economy) | Marketing Executive | Master of Business Administration (MBA) | Digital Marketing Expert, University of Johannesburg
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Executive Dean: College of Business & Economics, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Lecturer in Information Systems, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology
