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The Most Powerful Weapon for Changing the World: How Microfinance Institutions Can Increase Access to Education
Nelson Mandela described education as the “most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” But how can we increase access to quality education for children and adults? The author maintains that governments and the philanthropic sector can play a role, but there's also a practical need for private financial resources to support education access.
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Financial Products are Available – Why Aren’t the Poor Using Them?: IPA is seeking research partners to help answer that question
Take-up of mobile financial products remains low, and usage rates are often disappointing. That's why Innovations for Poverty Action is facilitating research to test solutions to this problem. We're republishing this post, which originally ran last July, since IPA is re-opening its fund for research proposals. The new deadline for Expressions of Interest applications is April 29, 2016.
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- Education
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Tunisia’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem – Why Youth and Tech are Vital Elements
Five years after protesters overthrew the Ben Ali regime and sparked the Arab Spring, an arid employment landscape (62.3 percent of college graduates are without work, as are 37.6 percent of young people) have fueled renewed protests. And yet, despite promises from the current government, jobs have not arrived. Is entrepreneurship not the panacea it is often made out to be?
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- Education
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Powering Up International Women’s Day – The Skilled Girl Effect
Women are relatively new entrants to the formal workforce in Bangladesh, and most are the first in their families to have a job. As the trend of greater female employment spreads across the country, women are increasingly taking up leadership positions as well, which has tremendous implications for the country’s workforce. BRAC discusses these changes, and its efforts to support them through skills training.
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Consent as Conversation: Lean research in vulnerable settings
Whether research unfolds in Harvard Square or a remote village, in our home communities or in a context with which we are newly familiar, we hope to question our assumptions on agency, power, risk, and vulnerability. In this post, the authors focus on making informed consent a truly meaningful process, particularly when conducting research in vulnerable settings.
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‘India B-schools lack courses on social entrepreneurship’
Chennai: Highlighting the need to include courses on social entrepreneurship in B-schools, prof V Kasturi Rangan of Harvard Business School said, "All management schools should offer such courses to sensitise people towards social causes. Most business school courses are very corporate-oriented."
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Want to Change the World? Support Poor Farmers
Achieving food security and improved nutrition worldwide is one of the biggest of the Sustainable Development Goals. But to achieve these goals, according to BRAC International, two things are crucial: women must have decision-making roles in both the public and private sector, and organizations working on providing anti-poverty solutions must have business-like models.
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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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- Education
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