11 Principles for Designing Financial Services for the Poor:

  • Design for social obligation
  • Design for social rank
  • Flexibility with sanctions
  • Structured illiquidity
  • Change the iconography, design with local values
  • Design for convertibility
  • Help calculate convertibility
  • Design for relative volume, not increment
  • Lucky Numbers
  • Tranches and Tiers
  • Design for Cyclical Events

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