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The Best of 2013: What’s Game-Changing in Latin America?: How new financial technologies and business models are powering financial inclusion in the region
Latin America has a long way to go in achieving financial inclusion, despite generally positive trends. Its residents often struggle with lack of savings and credit access, limited credit histories, and high interest rates - and they often avoid formal financial institutions. Accion Venture Lab describes some innovative business models and technologies that are addressing these issues.
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The Best of 2013: NextThought Monday – Opening the Curtain on the New 2.0 Era of Impact Investing
Impact investing has not been growing as quickly as many practitioners might have hoped, and knowledge of what does and does not work remains closely held. But in what they bill as "an unprecedented exercise in disclosure," Pacific Community Ventures and its partners are sharing the inner workings of 12 high-performing funds, hoping to spark a new era in impact investing.
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- Education
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- impact investing, research
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Simple, Cheap Health Remedies Cut Child Mortality In Ethiopia
Poor countries are starting to realize something that richer ones sometimes forget: Basic, inexpensive measures can have dramatic impacts on the health of a country. And they can save thousands of lives. Take, for instance, the situation in Ethiopia.
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- Education, Health Care
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A third of adults across world now overweight or obese
More than a third of all adults across the world are overweight or obese, a report from a British think-tank has revealed, leading to calls for governments to do more to tackle the growing crisis.
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- Education, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Most effective way to reduce smoking? Increase price of cigarettes, study says
That is the conclusion of a new study that calls for a tripling of tobacco taxes and a doubling of the price of a pack of cigarettes in much of the world.
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- Education, Health Care
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Watch The Gates Foundation’s New CEO In Action
Bill and Melinda Gates just announced that they have recruited Susan Desmond-Hellmann, until now the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, as the chief executive of their foundation.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, vaccines
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Small lifestyle changes ‘lower type 2 diabetes risk’
Modest lifestyle changes in diet and activity by South Asian families improve their chance of losing weight to lower their risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a study.
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- Education, Health Care
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The Best of 2013: Measure for Measure: Eight tips to optimize your data collection and maximize your impact
So, you want to learn more about your impact, or about the preferences of your customers at the BoP. It’s time for you to run a household-level survey. But how do you get started? Part 2 of our Measure for Measure series lays out eight things to keep in mind when developing survey content and processes for impact assessment.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- research
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