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Impact Investment Lawyering: Educating a new kind of lawyer
In the fall of 2008, the University of Michigan Law School launched an International Transactions Clinic (ITC), a first of its kind in legal education. During the last five years, the ITC has provided this unique, experiential learning opportunity to nearly 80 students who, in turn, have advised real social enterprise conducting more than 100 transactions around the globe.
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Soap Operas and Cell Phones: Riding on technological channels to impact financial capability at scale
The South African soap opera, Scandal!, shows the promise of technology and out-of-the-box thinking to improve financial behaviors of households around the world. A World Bank report, summarizing the outcome of five years of testing and experimentation on financial education, confirms that there’s still a lot of work to do to understand the scope and limitations of different interventions and delivery mechanisms.
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- Education
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New Hospital Chain in India Brings Fresh Approach: Jeevanti looking to improve quality, availability and affordability of secondary health care
Jeevanti aspires to create a chain of 25 50-bed, secondary-care, multi-specialty hospitals in small, underserved cities in Maharashtra and Gujarat. The two existing hospitals currently offer gynecology and obstetrics, pediatrics, general medicine and surgery, and served 30,000 people between March 2012 and July 2013.
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- Education, Health Care
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Dump the ‘Stupid’ Prizes – and Increase the Rest: Why we need more social enterprise competitions.
Recently, my friend and long-time mentor Kevin Starr wrote an article entitled “Dump the Prizes,” published in Stanford Social Innovation Review. I was initially concerned, because in addition to my day job at the nonprofit One Acre Fund, I am on the board of D-Prize. However, after considering his arguments, I came to the opposite conclusion: We need more prize competitions.
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- Education
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Bringing Payments Out of the Shadows: New data on how South Asian and Indonesian households pay and make money transfers
Payments are the glue of the economic system, and any inefficiency there ripples through the rest of the economy. Yet despite the fact that digital payments and remittances are critical for the poor to be able to access markets and formal financial services, there is very little data collected on the development of the payment market. But now, new research from South Asia and Indonesia is helping to shine a light on the subject.
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- Education
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China eyes health research cooperation with Africa
China plans to improve the health services it provides in Africa and expand its medical aid there, according to the International Cooperation unit at China's National Health and Family Planning Commission.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- research
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Working on Tibet’s Future, From India
In a spacious classroom in this northern Indian hill town, 20 young Tibetan men and women sit in front of computers as the summer monsoon rains fall outside.
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- Education, Technology
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- South Asia
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Students need to be challenged on social innovation, says Microsoft
“Instead of standardized teaching, our schools and our educators need to teach innovation” – Microsoft Malta
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Technology