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Three Key Lessons for Responsible Digital Finance
Xavier Giné (World Bank), Greg Fischer (London School of Economics) and Dean Karlan (Yale University) discuss the challenges and opportunities in designing digital financial services for the poor.
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Not Just Child’s Play: Why the financial services industry can – and should – support children’s well-being
A new research paper released by the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) explores the relationship between a family’s financial health and its children’s well-being, illuminating the need and opportunity for financial services to play a greater role in supporting child and family success. Doing so can help providers deepen relationships with customers today and with their children in the future.
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Tools for Economic Empowerment: Virtual learning in the Vital Voices GROW Fellowship
In this, the third in a series of articles about women entrepreneurs participating in the year-long Vital Voices GROW Fellowship, they speak in glowing terms of the virtual learning part of their training. Next up, they'll gather for in-person training.
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NexThought Monday: And the big winners in the move to SDGs are … why not everyone?
As we move from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the transition process is filled with a mix of excitement, expectation and guarded optimism. Perhaps some of the early hesitation voiced by various stakeholders, in both the public and private sector, trying integrate the SGDs will come to pass. However, the flourishing ecosystem of large companies diligently working in corporate social responsibility, shared value and in the inclusive business arena is encouraging.
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Weekly Roundup 11-6-15: Rotary provides blueprint against disease, but passion’s hard to duplicate
Polio has almost totally been eliminated and Rotary International deserves much of the credit. As an added bonus, this U.S.-based service organization composed of business and professional leaders has given the world a playbook to fight deadly diseases.
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Don’t Be a ‘Loser’: Why impact investing could benefit from Donald Trump’s playbook
The world of impact investing is getting swamped with jargon and insider’s terminology, says Alexandra Prather. Rather than creating an echo chamber of intellectual isolation, the impact ecosystem needs to dumb down the rhetoric and create a more inclusive and approachable dialogue. Ultimately, we need to "Trump" impact investing.
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The Impact of Tech: Sandhya Hegde of Khosla Impact Fund discusses how high-tech solutions can transform lives at the BoP
Khosla Impact Fund is an early stage equity fund that focuses on tech startups that help improve the standard of living at the BoP around the world, with a particular focus on India and East and West Africa. In this interview, recorded at the recent SOCAP15 conference, general partner Sandhya Hegde discusses the sectors and social issues that lend themselves to tech solutions, how Khosla works to help grow the ecosystem for their investees, and other issues related to the impact of tech on the developing world.
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- Investing, Technology
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Identifying and Connecting Promising #Socents: Siemens Stiftung awards meant to help bottom-up solutions achieve high-level goals
Siemens Stiftung's "empowering people. Awards" are designed to identify promising technologies designed to benefit people without access to crucial basic services, add the innovations to a database available to the international development community, and connect the innovators on a common platform and offer them help where they need it.
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