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Surviving Pakistan’s Slums: The Extraordinary Story of Mohammad Sabir
Every morning at sunrise, five-year-old Muhammad Sabir stepped out of his house, sagging a garbage bag to his shoulders, filling it with aluminum, plastic, paper scraps or anything he could find to sell. Salvaging trash to survive, he picked up snippets of newspapers and tried to read them.
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- Education, Health Care
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- North Africa & Near East
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Perfecting BOGO to a T: ‘Buy One, Give One’ is established, now let’s make it better
Now that TOMS has experimented with the model, emerging companies should hit the ground running with the goal of improving on the traditional "buy one give one" (BOGO) concept. Founded by Liberian-born entrepreneur Chid Liberty, Liberty & Justice (L&J) is a for-profit social enterprise that began with the vision to overcome the setbacks of the conventional BOGO model.
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- Education, Technology
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U.S. States Want to Do Good: Here’s How Wall St. Is Helping
Goldman Sachs could be coming to a pre-K program near you. Or, at least, that may be the case in Pennsylvania.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Survey: Big financial inclusion gains in Zambia
According to the FinScope 2015, the proportion of Zambian adults accessing financial services has increased to 59.3 percent in 2015 from 37.3 percent in 2009.
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- Education
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Industry Emerging from the Rubble in Haiti: How building skills locally through community networks can create sustainable businesses
Throughout the street markets in Port-au-Prince, a growing corps of entrepreneurs – mostly women – is helping the fuel-efficient stove market take root, showing how empowered local businesses, even in the poorest and most difficult-to-navigate environments, can create sustainable enterprises that employ and train local workers.
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- Education, Health Care
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Guess Which Country Has The Biggest Increase In Soda Drinking
The Big Soda companies are spending money to develop new markets in low- and middle-income countries. In some of these places, people are earning a bit more than a few years before, so they have more money for soda.
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- Education, Health Care
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Doctors, Researchers – Tear Down this Paywall: Paving a new road to research-based action in global development
The disconnect between development research and the communities it studies is an all-too-common trend in the international development community, with the Ebola crisis being the most recent example. The intuitive reason for this disconnect is cost of access. However, price is just the tip of the iceberg. Adam Lewis asks: If a study is published and no one is able to access, understand or apply it, does it make an impact?
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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PRESS RELEASE: Innovation for Poverty Action’s New $7.4 million Grant Will Support Research for Financial Inclusion
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) announced today a new $7.4 million grant to support research on product design innovations that enable the poor to access, use, and benefit from financial services.
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- Education