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Planting the Seeds of Digital Finance: Part 2 of our Digital Finance Plus series discusses why agriculture is key to building the mobile money ecosystem
Agriculture-focused payment solutions could and should have a unique role in the growth of digital finance, says Lee Babcock. Their ability to facilitate income streams to low-income families provides a powerful incentive for their adoption, and they could help extend the ecosystem to rural customers. So why aren’t more mobile money platforms tapping this potential?
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A Platform for the Poor: CGAP’s Digital Finance Plus explores how mobile money links the BoP to essential services
Digital financial services have progressed to the point where their benefits extend far beyond the confines of banks or telcos. In this series, organized in cooperation with CGAP, we’ll explore how innovative companies from many sectors are using mobile platforms to deliver services that can make tangible improvements in the lives of the poor.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Health Care
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When Human Rights Protests Cost Lives: How can the world fight Uganda’s anti-gay laws without hurting the health of its citizens? The private sector may be the answer
The private sector comprises a crucial component of Uganda’s health system, with significant reach into high-need communities. Instead of protesting Uganda’s anti-gay laws by withdrawing aid, what if international organizations reallocated their aid to investments in local health businesses and providers that target families in low-income, high-burden markets?
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Weekly Roundup – 4/5/2014: ‘Oooo Shiny!’ applies even in global health, as celebrities can help set public agendas
Given that “public will” and publicity-seeking politicians help set priorities for funding – and funding ultimately saves lives – why not get a celebrity involved in your worthy cause?
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- Health Care
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Health Workers Go the Last Mile: Organization is training staff to deliver care in the world’s most remote regions
Last Mile Health’s model recruits, trains, equips, manages and incentivizes frontline health workers, who deliver care door-to-door in remote villages and tackle 75 percent of the burden of the disease in these villages.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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Efficiency Is Noble: Study tour, forum focus on promising innovations in health care
IPIHD held its first study tour in India last October in order to bring health system leaders face to face with health care innovators. Three of those innovators, plus 27 more creative firms, will be represented at the third annual IPIHD Forum in Washington, D.C., on April 6.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Microfinance Can Be…: Month of Microfinance aims to “radically transform” microfinance, bring the focus back to clients
Microfinance was intended to be about clients, and designing products that would meet their financial needs. But in her research on MFIs, Laura Dick found that all too many seemed more interested in their repayment numbers or other institutional goals. The Month of Microfinance was launched, she says, to refocus the sector on the needs of the poor and radically transform it from the inside out.
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- Impact Assessment
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Behind the Scenes at Financial Inclusion 2020: Elisabeth Rhyne outlines the next steps in the movement to achieve global financial access
The Financial Inclusion 2020 Global Forum brought together hundreds of leaders to dedicate themselves to quality financial access for all by 2020. Since October, the Center for Financial Inclusion has been following up on the insights generated at the summit, and laying the groundwork for the next big push. Elisabeth Rhyne discusses the movement’s progress and next steps.
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