Norbert Häring — How India became Bill Gates’ guinea pig: A conspiracy as recounted by the main actors

Microsoft’s Bill Gates is one of the richest and most influential people on earth. He announced in 2015 that his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was aiming at achieving full digitalization of the payment systems of India and other populous developing countries by 2018. This “financial inclusion” program for India dates back to well before Narendra Modi came to power. It was elevated to official US policy by Executive Order in 2012, because the President saw vital US security interests are at stake....

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How India became Bill Gates’ guinea pig: A conspiracy as recounted by the main actors

Norbert Häring, Handelsblatt

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The Indian ‘no more cash’ experiment

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Raghuram Rajan — The changing paradigm for financial inclusion

Speech by Dr Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, at the National Seminar on "Equity, Access, and Inclusion - Transforming Rural India through Financial Inclusion", organised by the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, Hyderabad, 18 July 2016.

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