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Insights from G2012 Mexico Financial Inclusion Twitter Conference
Great insights and knowledge surfaced about how to provide valuable, affordable, secure, and comprehensive financial services to underserved and excluded communities during a six-hour long multilingual #SocEntChat on Twitter last month. It was part of the G2012 Mexico Financial Inclusion global competition that is seeking the world’s most innovative solutions for financial inclusion, organized by Ashoka Changemakers and G2012 Mexico. Don’t worry if you missed it, here’s a recap.
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Going Beyond Remittances: Why SMEs Should be a Key Market Segment for Mobile Money Operators
Many expect that SMEs could benefit substantially from mobile money as a tool to manage payments and working capital, given that it offers an electronic cash substitute for sending payments and storing working capital along with rudimentary record keeping. However, while mobile money use by SMEs is widespread, it is not yet deep.
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NexThought Monday: Designing New Financial Products for ‘Bolsa Familia’ Beneficiaries: CGAP’s research explores how conditional cash transfer recipients manage money
We at CGAP have been involved in efforts in Brazil to improve our understanding of Bolsa Família recipients. Our goal is to counteract the prevailing wisdom held by banks in Brazil that welfare recipients are a singular block of very poor people to whom it is difficult to provide financial services.
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Weekly Roundup: (With VIDEO) Burro’s ‘Billion Dollar’ Plans
Last week Whit Alexander, Cranium’s co-creator turned founder of BoP-focused business Burro. The business is reseller of multiple products; each designed to lift a barrier to productivity and catering to multiple customers, with multiple needs and multiple skills/backgrounds. In just a few years, Burro has grown to more than 300 Burro product resellers.
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Enabling Green and Inclusive Markets: Four Entrepreneurs’ Perspectives
What did entrepreneurs think of Rio+20? What are their impressions of how donors, governments, and organizations can and are helping green and inclusive markets flourish? We had a chance to follow up with the entrepreneurs from the four New Ventures India companies that participated in the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum session, “Enabling green and inclusive markets – a case for public-private collaboration” to ask them these questions.
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Wanted: World Changing Inventors (At Least One Reference Required): The $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation, is a call to action
Are you or someone you know an inventor who is developing technological inventions to address challenges in developing countries? Perhaps someone like Ashok Gadgil, whose fuel efficient cook stove, is saving women’s lives in Darfur? Then we want to honor them with the 2013 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation.
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Can Better Data Sharing Help Solve Pakistan’s Education Emergency?: Developyst’s platform is for NGOs, policy makers and educators to make better decisions
Developyst is Pakistan’s first social enterprise in education with a vision to champion data-driven development. The Developyst platform, which will be launched in 2013, seeks to be a space for education stakeholders to grow and develop their network by providing access to data in interactive and visually diverse ways.
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In Just a Few Months, Sistema B (AKA: B Corp) Finds Fertile Ground for Social Enterprises in Latin America
The global community of B Corporations first started in the United States and beginning this year it has expanded throughout South America starting with Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia through Sistema B (as B Corp is known in Latin America). In just a few months there are already 16 certified B Corporations (Empresas B in Spanish)
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