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Accelerating financial health for garment workers

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Rapidly growing digital platforms that support “gig” platform workers and entrepreneurs are transforming the nature of work. However, despite an increase in digital platform work and usage across Latin America and the Caribbean, workers and entrepreneurs remain disconnected from critical safety nets – such as savings and insurance – that could provide a lifeline to weather crises and shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic.

Partners of the Common Cents Lab are tech companies, banks, credit unions, non-profits, and government organizations with the common goal of using behavioral science to improve the financial well-being of low-to moderate-income people in the United States.Startups that participate in our Startup Lab academic incubator program are exposed to behavioral economics, supported in the integration of insights from social science, and are actively involved in collaborative projects with Center For Advanced Hindsight members in order to answer startup-specific research questions.CCL is committed to sharing our knowledge about human thought, behavior, and decision-making with the world at large. Between our course material on Coursera, Udemy, and Daily Bits: we have a course for you, whether you are a hardcore behavioral science fan or are just looking to learn something new about the world around you.The Common Cents Lab is working with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth to improve the financial resilience of digital platform workers and entrepreneurs in Latin America.

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Solutions that aim to increase the financial well-being for low- to moderate-income people living in the United States and abroad.

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Latin American & Caribbean

Building Financial Resilience for Digital Platform Workers and Entrepreneurs

Financial inclusion

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AI for social impact

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Digital transformation

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Financial health

Gender equity

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