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Coronavirus, Economic Meltdown And The World Of Impact: Insights From Lauren Cochran Of Blue Haven Initiative
What do the coronavirus pandemic and economic crisis mean for social enterprise and impact investing? Not Only for Profit is talking to a variety of key players for their insights.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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Migrant Wages Sent Home Set to Drop $142 Billion in 2020
The World Bank on Wednesday said that drop of almost 20% in money migrant workers send home - about four times greater to low- and middle-income countries than during the 2009 financial crisis - would largely be due to a fall in their wages and employment overseas.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- coronavirus, LMICs, migrants, remittances, World Bank
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Brazil Sees Surge in Uptake of Government Services Online
Covid-19 outbreak prompts citizens to rush to the platform, which has been expanded to support service provision during the crisis.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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- Latin America
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Responding to COVID-19 in the Developing World
The mass social distancing strategy being used to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the United States and Europe doesn’t easily translate to a developing country like Bangladesh, which lacks the capacity to impose restrictions or provide a social safety net for the unemployed. We talked with Yale SOM development economist Mushfiq Mobarak about how he is repurposing his research infrastructure in Bangladesh to gather information and test approaches to spreading public health messages.
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- Coronavirus
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: My Business Is ‘Essential.’ It Doesn’t Feel That Way.
The grocery check-out clerk, the child-care provider, and the gas-station attendant all have been asked to keep working in most places during the Covid-19 pandemic so that the police officer, the pilot, and the emergency-room nurse can get their jobs done.
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- Coronavirus
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- North America
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- business, coronavirus, employment
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Viewpoint: My Plan B for All the Big Corporate Bailout Proposals
At the heart of my Plan B bailout proposal is an intriguing and relatively new legal structure called a “benefit corporation.”
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- Coronavirus
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- North America
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Research During a Pandemic: Leaner and Faster Poverty Measurement in the Time of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is pushing research projects around the world to move from face-to-face data collection to shorter, phone-based methods. But as Elliott Collins and John Branch at Innovations for Poverty Action point out, these changes can present challenges for researchers studying how the pandemic affects poor and vulnerable households. They explore some strategies for measuring poverty under these constraints, based on IPA’s experience with lean, remote research.
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- Coronavirus, Impact Assessment
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- coronavirus, data, LMICs, poverty alleviation, research
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Viewpoint: Can Big Data Fight a Pandemic?
The COVID-19 crisis has intensified the debate over big data and privacy. Governments are pulling together data from public and private systems in order to predict and counter the spread of COVID-19. But setting aside privacy protections in a time of crisis could lead to new, permanent norms. We asked Yale SOM’s K. Sudhir about the role of India’s nationwide identity system, Aadhaar, and the use of big data around the world.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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