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Top tweets from the BoP Roadmap Launch
Top tweets from the launch of the BoP Roadmap event.
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From Classroom to the Real World: How young people in Africa can unlock limitless opportunities
Today more than half the population of sub-Saharan Africa is under the age of 25, and the World Bank predicts that as many as 11 million young people will join an expanding labor market every year for the next decade. Ashoka Changemakers’ John Converse Townsend looks at two social entrepreneurs fostering creative methods for turning around the unemployment crisis.
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- Education
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Converting Short-Term Remittances Into Long-Term Investments: Global Fund explores ways to build in financial inclusion and sustainable funding for health care
As many countries face mounting pressure to identify additional sources of domestic financing, The Global Fund ponders how individual remittance and savings accounts can play a larger role as an innovative solution for public health.
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- Education, Health Care
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From Seed to Harvest, BASF’s BoP Initiative is Rooted in Education, Profits: A video Q&A from BCTA’s Forum 2014
“The single biggest need gap we found was in information,” said Raman Ramachandran, chairman of BASF Companies in India, during last month’s Business Call to Action Forum 2014. Bridging that gap rested with providing Indian farmers tips on how and when to fertilize and safely utilize pesticides. Ramachandran sat down with NB to provide more details on the project that is boosting farmer knowledge and income.
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- Agriculture
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Financial Capability + Savings: IPA explores their impact on school performance and other areas
The theory behind financial education is that by learning financial concepts from an early age, children will make welfare-enhancing financial decisions when they grow up. But does it work? Innovations for Poverty Action runs down the results of programs in Uganda and beyond that are offering savings accounts, financial capability training or a combination of the two.
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- Education
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Unlocking the Potential of Nigeria’s Private Sector: A look behind the $24 million pledge for health innovations
Nigerian business leaders have made a $24 million commitment, through the Private Sector Healthcare Alliance of Nigeria, to focus on maternal and child mortality reductions for the Saving One Million Lives initiative.
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- Environment, Health Care
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NexThought Monday – Impact White Washing?: When any deal in a developing country with a few generic metrics can be considered impactful
Max Pichulik, who runs an investment accelerator in South Africa, argues that it is way too easy for fund managers to declare themselves as impact investors. Unless we ensure meaningful rating systems, provide adequate education to the marketplace and have clear safeguards in place, Pichulik says that impact investors run the risk of placing capital with marginal impact.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Twitter Top Ten – 11-2-14: Our favorite tweets of the week
Our "favorite tweets of the week" feature continues. Check it out. And help us out by keeping a close eye on your feed this coming week and tweeting your favorites our way.
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