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U.S. under pressure to give potentially life-saving medication the green light as experts warn of global pandemic
Health campaigners are today calling for U.S. authorities to speed up their approval of a new drug hoped to be the first cure for the deadly Ebola virus.
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- Education, Health Care
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How 500 Startups-backed SocialCops gets to the bottom of the pyramid with big data
India, like most developing countries, struggles to bridge the gulf between authorities and the common man. Even the best of intentions come to naught when the benefits of welfare schemes don’t reach the people who need them the most — and those in high places can’t seem to figure out why.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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Protector Plus ‘night campaigns’ to promote condom usage in Africa
Population Services International (PSI) has ventured into Protector Plus night campaigns in a bid to promote usage of a new brand of condoms, New Man in Town, as the fight against HIV and Aids continues, an official has said.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Crowdnetic and UC Berkeley to partner on Crowdfunding Research
Over a year ago, Crowdnetic and UC Berkeley began collaborating on the launch of UC Berkeley’s Program for Innovation in Entrepreneurial and Social Finance, headed by Dr. Richard Swart, who serves as its Director of Research at the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Two Sides of the Same Coin: How India’s microfinance and health sectors can collaborate for greater impact
In countries like India, microfinance can be a valuable tool for providing the financing that the poor need to maintain their health. And for microfinance to achieve its goal of providing financial security to the poor, it has to address health security. Sabina Rogers of the Microcredit Summit Campaign describes how the two sectors could collaborate to expand health care access to hundreds of millions.
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- Education, Health Care
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The Missing Link in Financial Inclusion: Addressing India’s financial literacy gap
India is at an inflection point on the road to financial inclusion, writes Radhika Binani of the Dell Foundation. On the one hand, the country has made considerable progress in the last few years in expanding access to financial products. But even among Indians who have accounts, usage is low. The missing link, she says, is financial literacy, and she describes five design principles for delivering it.
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- Education
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There Is No A-Ha Moment: Social and entrepreneurial ‘innovation’ myths must first fall to build something new
Innovation is not only the purview of creative people; it is not born in a warm shower stall, or even on explorations into nature. These four steps guided us through the founding of Dare to Innovate and inform the program that all of our fellows go through to create their social businesses.
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- Education
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- incubators
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Finding A Responsible Way Forward For Digital Finance: A CGAP global survey looks to shape the roadmap
Between 2011 and 2013, registered mobile money users almost tripled, growing to more than 200 million globally. But growing opportunities in the sector bring new risks for consumers, and new challenges for providers and regulators. That’s why CGAP has launched a global survey to help shed light on the state of practice, and drive discussion around responsible digital finance.
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- Education
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- digital payments, research
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