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Announcing NextBillion Financial Innovation: Our newest blog banks on progress
It seems that nearly every day a financial provider, a technology designer or an entrepreneur (or other innovator) is unveiling a new wedge to crack open the door for people traditionally shut out of the financial system. Telling their stories, sharing their insights, debating the consequences of their advancements (or setbacks, as the case may be), this is the guiding principle of NextBillion Financial Innovation, the new blog we’re proudly launching today.
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Ripe for Innovation: CGAP CEO Tilman Ehrbeck, On How New Approaches to Financial Services for the Poor Are Overcoming a Massive Market Failure
As part of NextBillion Financial Innovation’s launch, we invited a number of top innovators and leaders to contribute their views on financial innovation – what’s driving it, where momentum is heading, and what obstacles remain. Today Tilman Ehrbeck, CEO of CGAP, explores why financial exclusion has persisted at the BoP, and how innovation is turning this around.
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Phoning It In: An innovative way to make health care affordable for Kenya’s working poor
Changamka helps Kenyans save small amounts over time to purchase health insurance through a product called “Linda Jamii” (Swahili for “care for the family”). A mobile money micro-financing system makes it possible.
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- Health Care, Technology
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NexThought Monday – 7 Trends Shaping Africa’s Youth Employment Challenge: What do social entrepreneurs bring to the conversation?
Currently, 70 percent of Africans are under the age of 30. By 2040, 50 percent of the world’s youth will be African, most of whom will be women and girls. Social entrepreneurs teach great lessons when it comes to the grand challenge like youth unemployment in Africa. The biggest opportunities for all sectors and institutions are at the center of the problems and the insights within the community.
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Weekly Roundup – SOCAP13 Takeaways: Plus, things we could take away (completely) from buzzwords
Regardless of whether “manufacturing,” “inventory,” or “design” follows it, “lean” is a buzz word that has zipped around the business lexicon for the better part of a decade. But a word to the wise: it does not apply well to every sector – including ours, i.e. the social sector.This and other takeaways from SOCAP13.
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Why Backing College Loans To Low-Income Students In Mexico Is A Game Changer
Mexico has a smaller proportion of college students than other countries on a similar path of growth and progress. At FINAE, our first great challenge was to create a model that achieved a balance between a profitable business and affordable interest rates for the students without any kind of governmental subsidy or support, as it happens in other countries.
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- Education
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Programa Vivenda: Housing, bonds and community
Programa Vivenda is taking a different approach to the market, and has managed to spot unexplored demand and positively impact many families in the process. The startup delivers better quality of life to the population through home renovations, kits and technical assistance aimed at improving comfort and covering the expenses of owning a house.
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Gawad Kalinga : Building a social enterprise network in the Philippines
Gawad Kalinga, now a multi-million dollar Filipino NGO, was founded by Antonio Meloto (“Tito Tony” as he’s also known) to reduce poverty through a genuine network effect connecting businesses, communities, government and educators. Gawad Kalinga’s goal is ending poverty for 5 million families by 2024.
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