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10 Key Takeaways from the 2014 Global Findex Survey: Highlights from the World Bank’s treasure trove of financial inclusion data
How many adults in the world have a bank account? How do people save, borrow, and manage financial risk? How is mobile money shaking up the financial inclusion world? The World Bank’s newly released Global Findex attempts to answer those questions, drawing from a database of 800 indicators, based on surveys with almost 150,000 people in 143 economies. CGAP presents 10 takeaways from the report.
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Ending Energy Poverty? The Solutions Already Exist
Last week the charity SolarAid announced that it had hit a milestone by reaching 10 million people with clean, safe light. The social uplift this will bring is extraordinary – solar lights impact poverty, health, hunger, education, enterprise and the environment. At the same time, the announcement shows much more; that the potential of solar to empower rural African off-grid communities is beginning to be realised.
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Creating Your Own Luck: 5 Crowdfunding Tips for Social Entrepreneurs
Whether it involves smart watches or potato salad, it seems that every week brings another story of a crowdfunding campaign gone viral. And with $16.2 billion in annual funding, the industry represents a valuable opportunity for social enterprises large and small. Here are five tips that can help a social business launch a successful campaign.
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- Social Enterprise
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Redefining Innovation: Four things I learned at PATH
An associate professor at Stanford spent two years as the global program leader of PATH’s Technology Solutions Program, and says the experience helped redefine what innovation means to him.
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Six Years, Many Lessons: Scaling Impact from the Ashoka Globalizer Program
Why don’t great ideas that are useful and working effectively to solve some of the most pressing social challenges “travel” as well as business ideas do? An organization doesn’t have more impact the bigger it becomes, in fact, it’s quite the opposite … and this became our mantra and our working hypothesis at the Ashoka Globalizer Program.
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NexThought Monday – Financial Capability: Where Do We Go From Here?
Collectively, the financial capability field has arrived at a key point in its evolution, write Daria Sheehan of the Citi Foundation and Joshua Sledge of CFSI. The concept has reached widespread adoption and attempts at innovation are yielding new and effective models for helping people better manage their money. With so much accomplished in the recent past, what will it take to continue the momentum for the future?
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Twitter Top Ten – 5-3-15: #Nepal
Normally we recognize ten tweets each Sunday that stood out to us from the week gone by. This week we’re doing 11 - including one on a point of hope for Nepal, one week after the devastating earthquake has taken so many lives and left so many more uncertain.
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Weekly Roundup – A Tale of Two Earthquakes: As the development community focuses on Nepal, will it repeat the mistakes it made in Haiti?
Over 6,200 people have died from Nepal’s recent earthquake, with almost 14,000 injured – numbers that will certainly grow in the coming days. But as the world seeks ways to help the country, some are raising the cautionary tale of a related disaster: the January 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti, and the inefficient, tragically mismanaged response from the global development community that followed it.
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