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Export, Learn … Profit: A new randomized evaluation reveals emerging market businesses that export have the advantage
Export promotion programs work under the assumption that the experience of exporting helps firms learn new skills and techniques and thereby become more productive. However, until now, no research determined whether exporting actually causes businesses to improve. Innovations for Poverty Action helped conduct the first randomized controlled trial investigating whether firms actually learn through exporting.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Central Bankers Shouldn’t Fret Over Mobile Money: Research says it doesn’t cause inflation, and could be beneficial in monetary policy
Research conducted by the University of Oxford for the Gates Foundation shows that the growth of mobile money will be neutral or (if anything) beneficial to the conduct of well-designed monetary policy. The authors believe this will be "a solid new brick in our fact base around digital financial services."
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- Technology
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Closing the Market Gap: The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership trains female entrepreneurs to sell a varitey of products in remote regions
The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership created a distribution social enterprise model that trains female entrepreneurs as a door-to-door distribution network in remote regions. The model aims to create livelihoods for female entrepreneurs and to increase the access and affordability of essential and pro-poor goods to BoP communities.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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NexThought Monday – Three Winning Conditions to Enable Mobile Money Interoperability
Interest is growing in the topic of “interoperability” in mobile money and its potential impact for the nascent sector. A handful of deployments, such as in Indonesia and more recently in Tanzania, have garnered attention. Amitabh Saxena, who led mobile money at MasterCard in Latin America, and Selma Ribica, who leads interoperability strategy at Vodafone’s global M-Pesa team, provide nuance on some of the industry perspectives currently being advocated.
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- Technology
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Twitter Top Ten 6-27-15: How well is your being? We’ve got the stats in our weekly compilation
We came across some doozies this week as we sniffed around the Twittersphere in our search for the best of the best. We learned that free’s not always a good thing; it’s possible for Bill Gates to give away EVEN MORE money; and Panama leads the world in "well-being." Again. (We were well-schocked.)
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- Uncategorized
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Weekly Roundup 6-26-15 : Financial inclusion beyond gender currency, public health and e-cigs, and what you can learn from 12 years of scaling up
Beginning this week, we will be doing a little remix of the weekly roundup. To start, we’re going to be publishing it on Fridays instead of Saturdays. Secondly, each week the entire NB team will be providing articles and mini-analyses from the world of social enterprise from a variety of angles - financial innovation, health and business development, to just name a few.
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- Health Care
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The Most Popular Posts for May : Details, details, details
Looking at the blog posts receiving the most page views in May, it’s clear that our readers also like to sweat the details, as three exceptionally detailed (yet extraordinarily readable) posts topped our readers’ favorites.
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- Energy
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- microfinance, solar
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Five Trust Issues That Are Undermining Mobile Money: Surprisingly, says MicroSave, fraud is not customers’ biggest concern
After years spent overcoming the core challenges of establishing large-scale, sustainable digital finance systems in developing countries, attention is now shifting to consumer protection. According to Graham Wright, many of the key consumer protection issues relate to basic customer service – and they appear to be undermining trust and thus reducing both uptake and usage.
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- Education
