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Weekly Roundup: Healthy Debate and Unhealthy Economics at Unite for Sight
I went to a global health conference last weekend and an economics lesson broke out. OK, that’s a bit of an oversimplification. A lot more than economics was discussed at the 13th annual Unite for Sight Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale University. It’s just that as I scurried from session to session around the campus, I kept hearing about the scarcity and/or misapplication of money.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- public health
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India’s Health Challenges and Would-Be Solutions – From Human to Artificial Intelligence
By 2030, India's population of people age 60 or older is projected to grow by 64 percent while urban areas are expected to more than double their current population levels. A massive shift from from communicable diseases to non-communicable diseases is coming, creating different health care challenges. Villgro, a Chennai-based social business incubator, sees many opportunities for social entrepreneurs developing tech-based solutions.
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- Health Care
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NexThought Monday: Impact and the Science of Social Networks – More Bang For Your Buck
The basic principle behind network science is very simple: Things are connected, and the ways they are connected affect their individual and collective performance. Network science offers a powerful solution for providing insights about impact. Understanding and harnessing it would allow social entrepreneurs and investors to design and implement data-based strategies.
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- Impact Assessment
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- research
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Making it Rain: The forecast on weather index insurance
A host of risks, including too much or too little rain, keeps farmers from adopting inputs and practices that may yield more profitable crops. But weather index insurance could be the hedge many farmers need. The Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative reviewed several randomized control trials about how to make insurance a more attractive option for farmers.
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- Agriculture
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Why China’s Fintech Surge is Only Just Beginning
In China, MetLife Foundation's newest approach to improving the financial health of everyday consumers is through harnessing the power of social entrepreneurs. Next month the foundation will invite social enterprises (nonprofit and for-profit alike) across China that are focused on increasing access and use of financial services among low- to moderate-income people to enter their products to participate in a new competition. Why China is booming for fintech and what's next.
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Financial Products are Available – Why Aren’t the Poor Using Them?: IPA is seeking research partners to help answer that question
Take-up of mobile financial products remains low, and usage rates are often disappointing. That's why Innovations for Poverty Action is facilitating research to test solutions to this problem. We're republishing this post, which originally ran last July, since IPA is re-opening its fund for research proposals. The new deadline for Expressions of Interest applications is April 29, 2016.
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- Education
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NexThought Monday: Don’t Brag That You’re More Selective than Harvard and Other Lessons in Startup Acceleration
Investors, foundations and governments all want to use their funding dollars most efficiently, but it takes time and sustained effort to gather useful data. Village Capital recently released a new report with Social Enterprise @ Goizueta that begins to shed light on an answer. Part of the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative (GALI), the study is the most ambitious effort to date to track what’s working in accelerators.
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- Investing
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Tunisia’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem – Why Youth and Tech are Vital Elements
Five years after protesters overthrew the Ben Ali regime and sparked the Arab Spring, an arid employment landscape (62.3 percent of college graduates are without work, as are 37.6 percent of young people) have fueled renewed protests. And yet, despite promises from the current government, jobs have not arrived. Is entrepreneurship not the panacea it is often made out to be?
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- Education
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- employment
