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Piloting the 2014 Findex
As President Kim pointed out earlier this month at the plenary of the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings, 2.5 billion adults worldwide aren’t using the formal financial system
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Micro-finance: the fuel or fall of entrepreneurship in emerging markets?
The advent of micro-finance has ignited hopes that micro-entrepreneurs would now have one less obstacle in their way.
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- Education
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- microfinance, research
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First Woman to Lead Global Health Council
The Global Health Council, a network of leading organizations dedicated to saving lives and improving the health of the world's poorest people, has named a veteran of UNICEF, USAID, and other global health organizations as its new executive director.
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- Education, Health Care
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GSK and BMGF ink new partnership to accelerate research into vaccines for global health needs
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) have launched a new joint initiative that will endeavour to make vaccines more resistant to heat, thus reducing the need for refrigeration. GSK and BMGF will invest a combined $1.8 million in early stage research into vaccine thermostability.
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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$74m gift from Carlos Slim to genomics center targets Latin Americans
Mexican billionaire and philanthropist Carlos Slim Helú visited the Broad Institute on Monday afternoon to announce a $74 million gift to the genomics center that will advance biomedical research that benefits people in Latin America.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Health Care Needs Lifeline: Analysis of processes in and around Delhi reveals patients treated indifferently
A business consultant studying opportunities finds that patients, irrespective of their class, financial status or origin, are viewed as potential income by too many health care service providers.
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- Education, Health Care
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Tapping the Network to Fight Poverty: How targeting influential leaders can increase financial innovation uptake
Whether you measure it by Twitter followers or by how crowded your kitchen is at dinnertime, it’s clear that some people have larger social networks than others. And a few individuals invariably emerge as central points of contact for their larger social groups. Jake Kendall of Gates Foundation discusses innovative research suggesting that these network “hubs” can propel the diffusion of financial innovations at the BoP.
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- Education
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Health Education That Sticks: Growing from within can be key to changing communities
Roots of Health educates women, young mothers and children, and has found that when this education "sticks," it changes people and even communities. The best way to achieve that goal, ROH maintains, is to grow from within each community, starting on a very personal level.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health