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Pakistan Launches Payment System To Boost Financial Inclusion

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“I hope that in years to come we will look back and see this new digital public good as an important contribution to our shared goal of giving all people the tools they need to lift themselves out of poverty,” Bill Gates said in a statement read out at the announcement on Monday, according to Reuters.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

Barry Ritholtz

And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. Poverty, sustenance poverty is a roof over your head, food on your table, reasonable healthcare, it’s a sustenance, the ability to sustain yourself. RITHOLTZ: Right. What do you do?

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Transcript: Angus Deaton

Barry Ritholtz

He won the Nobel Prize in 2015 for his work on consumption, poverty, welfare wealth and health inequality. Health, happiness, development, poverty, wellbeing, inequality, and the best ways to collect and interpret evidence for public policy that is quite an eclectic broad set of interests. Tag on top of that for healthcare.