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An alternative way of tackling the savings gap in LEDCs

Ruth Tarrant

18th May 2016

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Here's a thoughtful, short and very recent TED talk on a new approach to providing loans to people in LEDCs, by using mobile data to give them a credit score.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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