When Joyce Musonda wanted to start a business two years ago selling kitchen tiles from her backyard in an up-and-coming district of Zambia's capital of Lusaka, she braced herself for a battle to find a start-up loan. Her predicament is common: around 80 percent of sub-Saharan adults have no bank ac
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