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Charting the Financial Inclusion Groundswell in India: The NPCI’s top innovations
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is aggressively leading the Indian government’s efforts to bring banking to all sections of society. After nearly a decade of research and trials, many of these financial innovation measures for the poor are starting to make their way to the marketplace.
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- Technology
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Special Series (Part 5): BPO for the BoP – The Path Towards Sustainability and Scale: Lessons on Expansion from a Mature Impact Sourcing Provider
In part five of our six-part series on Impact Sourcing, we highlight Digital Divide Data (DDD), an internationally acclaimed social enterprise that employs more than 1,100 people and operates in several countries, including Cambodia, Laos and Kenya. It recruits, trains and employs youth to perform BPO work, while also providing them financial support for higher education.
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- Education, Technology
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Resilience Meets Disaster Economics: Investing to stop disasters before they start can save lives and money
Global needs for crisis response are increasing. From drought in the Horn of Africa to battering storms in Haiti, natural disasters are becoming common and responding to them can be expensive. At the same time, donor funds are becoming scarce. This confluence of circumstances should drive a change in how the world funds crisis response.
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- Uncategorized
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Pushing Back on ‘Scalable’: Reconsidering the buzz word for a successful social enterprise
If a social business improves people’s lives by helping them overcome the poverty line by fulfilling their needs, I can’t believe scalability is the key for its success. I believe its purpose should be and is to become self-sufficient, with fair wages for employees within the law. How can this not be considered a success?
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- Impact Assessment
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Quality Medicines for All: The case for more local drug production in Africa
Significant progress has been made in providing treatment to people in Africa suffering from diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Yet an access gap remains. Juergen Reinhardt, of UNIDO, advocates addressing this gap by strengthening Africa’s local pharmaceutical industry.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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From Subsistence to Entrepreneurship: Attracting a younger generation to the pasture over the city, with respect and improved income
Historically, farming has been considered a peasant occupation. It was about subsistence, not profit. However, everything from effective pruning to water management to additional cash-yielding activities such as bee-keeping, are making the agricultural sector much more attractive to younger workers.
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- Agriculture, Education
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Part 2: From Local to Global: Unite for Sight’s expanding impact
Jennifer Staple-Clark built Unite for Sight from a dorm room-based student group into a world-renowned global non-profit, serving 1,500,000 patients and facilitating over 63,000 sight-restoring surgeries in Ghana, India and Honduras. In Part 2 of our interview, she discusses Unite for Sight’s innovative revenue-generating programs, and how it harnesses its volunteer, research and fundraising efforts to support its mission.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Identifying Digital Opportunities for African Youth
For the past two and a half years, The Rockefeller Foundation has been supporting work to foster the development of Impact Sourcing – outsourcing jobs for poor or vulnerable people without the opportunity for alternative employment. With a $512 billion, and growing, global outsourcing market, this work seeks to enable more equitable growth by allowing youth in Africa to tap into potential job opportunities.
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- Education, Technology
