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No Golden Future for Emerging Countries: Why refusing to buy artisanal gold is no solution
Artisanal gold mining accounts for roughly 20% of the world's gold production but employs around 80% of the global industry’s miners.
Is Ignorance an Admissible Excuse? Major companies sued for supporting child labour
Several major companies, including Tesla, Apple, Microsoft and Google, have been named in a lawsuit implicating them in the deaths of child labourers in artisanal mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Hands-on in the Sewers of India: Changing the lives of India's ‘non-people’
While writing an article for March's ATTIC Magazine, I was reminded of two conferences I worked on in the Netherlands and Costa Rica.
The Pound that was in Your Pocket: The importance of cash in financial inclusion
Cash is dead. Give it five years and no one will use it any more. Everyone knows this, except, apparently, the Bank of England.
Mobilising the Digital Payments Revolution: A call to fintechs to share their solutions
Today, 5.1 billion people own a mobile phone. Compared to a world population of a little over 7 billion, that suggests that roughly two-thirds of people are part of the app revolution.
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