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Three Messages from BRAC’s Frugal Innovation Forum to the Skoll World Forum
Small is beautiful, but big is necessary. In Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, many development practitioners live by this creed. But at last month’s Frugal Innovation Forum: Scaling Simple Solutions, everyone agreed that they don’t get nearly enough opportunities to talk shop and compare notes within the region. Taking place in Dhaka from March 30-31, the forum was the first ever gathering of South Asian development practitioners, hosted in South Asia, specifically to talk about scaling frugal innovations.
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- Technology
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Africa’s Microinsurance Maze: Early trial-and-error efforts could lead to coverage for 1 billion in 2013
Insurers, mobile-phone companies and behind-the-scenes administrators also involved have learned that mobile networks and microinsurance are potentially a great fit. The challenge for the future is getting people to pay.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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Ensuring a Resilient Financial Future : Reduced public spending is a reality for the foreseeable future
Last year, in partnership with several organizations, we identified a $650 billion market opportunity for financial advisors and investors to invest for impact in a research study entitled Gateways to Impact. Impact investing presents an opportunity to build a financial future for low-income communities that is far less reliant on variable funding sources.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Hypertension Gets its Moment: Following World Health Day, what’s ahead for a global response?
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have come to the forefront of global health discussions - hypertension was even the focus of the 2013 World Health Day. But in spite of the attention, there’s still limited access to NCD care and treatments in developing countries, and limited public awareness of their symptoms. As the global health community seeks solutions to these problems, can the tactics of developed countries like the U.S. serve as a model?
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- Health Care
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- public health
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TOMS Shoes and Consumerism’s 3 Biggest Sins
Unlike impact investing, which is often funded by rich angel investors, conscious consumerism allows middle class individuals to make philanthropy part of their daily lives. Unfortunately, the movement remains controversial because companies like TOMS don’t prioritize a lot of things that “normal” social enterprises do. Here are conscious consumerism’s three biggest sins.
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A Turbulent Transition: Afghanistan’s private health care sector emerges
When Afghanistan is in the news, it’s not generally because of health care. But alongside the country’s political turmoil, its health care system has been undergoing a transformation of its own. Departing from its long-standing distrust of for-profit health care, the Afghan government is now seeking to engage with the private sector. CHMI’s Rose Reis interviews Dr. Omarzaman Sayedi of Futures Group about the country’s transition to a free-market health system.
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- Health Care
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- governance, public health
