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Achieving Global Health Equality Within a Generation
When looking at the broad sweep of human history, people's health status was relatively similar across the world. Death rates for mothers and children were high, life expectancy was short, and health status was poor. This was the universal condition.Only in the past two centuries have we seen the world diverge.
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- Education, Health Care
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The Power of Heuristics: New white paper from ideas42
In a new paper by ideas42, Antoinette Schoar and Saugato Datta argue that using heuristics (effective rules of thumb) can “enable people to make ‘reasonably good’ decisions without needing to understand all the complex nuances of the situation.” ideas42 is building on their findings to develop financial heuristics programs for microentrepreneurs around the globe.
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- Education
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3 Myths That Block Access to the Poor
Every year The Gates Foundation releases an annual letter, this is 2014 where Bill Gates states "By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world."
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- Education, Health Care
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- vaccines
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Why Ending Malaria May Be More About Backhoes Than Bed Nets
Wiping out malaria is still a top goal for many leaders in global health.
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, infrastructure
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Can telcos predict Mobile Money hotspots?
A study by CGAP looks at the relationship between voice call routes and money transfer, trying to help telcos focus their investment in mobile money solutions.
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- Education
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Microfinance as a tool for empowering conflict-affected communities
At a recently-held seminar organised by the Pathfinder Foundation in Colombo, a paper and three presentations were publicised under the theme ‘microfinance as a tool for empowering conflict-affected communities’.
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- Education
- Region
- South Asia
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Loans facilitate skill development training in India
Skill development training, which costs anywhere between Rs 20, 000 and Rs 50,000 for a typical engineering student, now comes along with loans which can be converted into easy monthly installments (EMIs).
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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