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Fruitful Entrepreneurship Training Helps Women in Tanzania’s Ag Sector Flourish
Over half of the agricultural workers in Tanzania are women. Not only do women carry out some of the most labor-intensive work, but they also have insufficient access to financial credit and face discrimination in land ownership. The Innovations in Gender Equality to Promote Household Food Security program, a joint venture between USAID and Land O’Lakes International Development launched in 2012, aims to identify, test and then scale innovations that enable female farmers to more efficiently produce agricultural products and bring them to market. The big goal: Help women spend less time in the field and more time in higher-value added activities.
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Weekly Roundup: Grading Super Bowl Ads, Teaching Social Entrepreneurship, Fact-Checking Global Health
Three commercials at this Sunday's Super Bowl 50 come from financial services providers focused on customers who can’t afford a ticket to the game. We grade the three ads in terms of how effectively they present the inclusive elements of these companies' brands, discuss a new school for social entrepreneurs, and explore a new fact-checking initiative for global health in this roundup.
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Virtual Companies Come to Life: How New Methods in Student Training Can Build Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Kenya
How can students gain the experience and skills necessary to lead their businesses effectively and sustainably? Integrating virtual (or "training") companies into education could be one answer. Sote ICT, a joint project of the Pontis Foundation in Slovakia and Kasigau Wildlife Trust in Kenya, focuses on the development of entrepreneurial skills in students at 12 high schools in southeast Kenya through this method. Since its inception three years ago, this project has educated more than 500 young people.
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The Personal Connection: The Value of In-Person Training for Women Business Owners
As part of his continuing series, Nathan Rauh-Bieri checks back in with participants in the year-long Vital Voices GROW Fellowship. He learned that, in a world growing more "virtual" by the day, there's still plenty of value in entrepreneurs meeting face to face.
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University Students Energise Global Campaign for Medical R&D Agreement
The force of hundreds of students worldwide has gathered behind an international effort urging governments to promote research and development in a way that does not result in high-priced medicines. The initiative led by Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) seeks to address the longstanding gap in affordable medicines and puts the focus on the World Health Organization, whose members are currently working on this issue.
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- Education, Health Care
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Youth Jobs 2.0
Youth unemployment is a complex issue with no easy fix; the global economy needs to create almost 2.5 million jobs each month to absorb the youth entering the market in the next decade. But digital technoloy offers some solutions if certain concrete steps are taken – and if there's collaboration between public and private sectors.
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Too Good to be True?: Is the Global Findex survey overstating growth in financial inclusion?
Since it was published a few weeks ago, the World Bank’s 2014 Global Findex report has made a splash in media around the world. It found that financial inclusion grew from 51 to 62 percent between 2011 and 2014, a shift that represents a total of 700 million people worldwide. But according to Daniel Rozas and David Roodman, there are reasons to be skeptical about this apparently massive growth.
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Mobile Money Without Borders: How a new model is transforming the remittance landscape in West Africa
International remittances are a major source of income for people in many developing markets, and Africa is no exception. But Africans pay the highest remittance transaction fees in the world. The industry has been experimenting with a new model that uses mobile money to address this issue. The GSMA shares insights into this model, highlighting results from their recent case study.
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- Education
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