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Soap Operas and Cell Phones: Riding on technological channels to impact financial capability at scale
The South African soap opera, Scandal!, shows the promise of technology and out-of-the-box thinking to improve financial behaviors of households around the world. A World Bank report, summarizing the outcome of five years of testing and experimentation on financial education, confirms that there’s still a lot of work to do to understand the scope and limitations of different interventions and delivery mechanisms.
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New Hospital Chain in India Brings Fresh Approach: Jeevanti looking to improve quality, availability and affordability of secondary health care
Jeevanti aspires to create a chain of 25 50-bed, secondary-care, multi-specialty hospitals in small, underserved cities in Maharashtra and Gujarat. The two existing hospitals currently offer gynecology and obstetrics, pediatrics, general medicine and surgery, and served 30,000 people between March 2012 and July 2013.
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The Ripple Effect: Women Powering Work Through Microfinance And Entrepreneurship
When Roshaneh Zafar quit her job at the World Bank in 1995 to establish the Kashf Foundation, she carried a moment of inspiration and a powerful vision for the future with her. Ten years later, after plenty of opposition along the way, she has proven her critics wrong by showing that women-centered and women-managed microfinance programs in Pakistan can indeed flourish and succeed.
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Competition Launch: Women Powering Work in MENA
General Electric and Ashoka Changemakers has launched an online competition in search of innovative solutions that will advance economic opportunities for women in Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and Pakistan. Women Powering Work: Innovations for Economic Equality is calling for initiatives that enable women to achieve economic equality, strengthen their families and communities, and benefit equitably from economic growth.
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Backpack-equipped Health Care Workers Make a Difference in Rio: Added mobility helps monitor patients, manage diseases in favela
New Cities Foundation project is the first major study looking at the impact of integrating e-health technology in low-resource, densely populated, urban settings - and the early returns are promising.
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NexThought Monday – Is Charity: Water the Expedia of Philanthropy?
Expedia doesn’t make planes. It doesn’t run planes and it doesn’t own planes. But it sends millions of people on trips every year. Charity: water doesn’t make, run or own wells. But thousands have been dug on its dime.
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On the Ground at SOCAP – Day 3: Mainstreaming impact investing, healing Detroit and developing communities
Scott Anderson and Marzena Zukowska are your roving bloggers from this week’s Social Capital Markets Conference in San Francisco.
Here’s their rundown of Day 3 (Thursday) at the sprawling social investing gathering - taken from three of the day’s many sessions.- Categories
- Impact Assessment
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How Brazil’s Tenda Atacado Group Serves The Base Of The Pyramid
The Tenda Atacado Group has 19 cash and carry stores in São Paulo, Brazil. By the end of 2013, it’s projecting revenues of US $900 million. Every month, it serves 1.3 million clients - 25 percent of whom are entrepreneurs - representing 50 percent of its sales. CEO Marco Gorini discusses Tenda Atacado’s strategy of focusing on formal and informal entrepreneurs at the BoP.
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