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‘This isn’t what we had once hoped it would be … so what should we do?’: Dean Karlan discusses the influential new studies on microcredit’s social impact
Discussion of the six recent microcredit RCTs has followed two general tracks. Within the sector, it has focused on how the studies can be used to improve products and social impact. But outside the sector, it has focused on how microcredit hasn’t lived up to the hype. Both of those currents came to the fore in our Q&A with Dean Karlan, President and Founder of Innovations for Poverty Action.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Medical Researchers Challenged to Create an Affordable Dialysis Machine to Treat People in Remote Communities
Three leading health organisations have set medical researchers a challenge to make an affordable dialysis machine capable of using non-purified water as new figures show more people will experience terminal kidney failure.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care
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- research
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What Gates Foundation’s $52M Investment Says About Social Enterprise Funding
Social enterprises seeking financing face a great many hurdles that more-traditional ventures don’t have to tackle.
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- Education, Health Care
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New MacArthur President Promises Grant Making With a More Immediate Impact
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation looked within its own ranks to pick its new president, Julia Stasch, who has promised to instill a sense of urgency at the grant maker.
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- Education, Technology
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- philanthropy
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Where Ethics and the Enterprise Intersect: 1,001 questions at the 2015 Latin American Impact Investment Forum (FLII)
What is an ethical business? During last month’s Latin America Impact Investing Forum (FLII) Avina’s Bernardo Toro, said it clearly: “It is a business that doesn’t prey on people; one that creates real value; one that pays attention to what’s important, not what’s showy.” Simple and to the point, so why do we struggle with it?
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Proper Sanitary Pads Are Keeping Girls in School
How do you cut the school dropout rate for girls in a remote pocket of Uganda? And how do you create jobs for village women? The answer to both questions: sanitary pads.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OurCrowd Helps Wharton Students Launch Largest Student-Run Impact Investing Platform in the World
OurCrowd, the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platform, has announced a unique collaboration that will help students at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania get an industry-leading experiential education in impact investing. This initiative will greatly expand the Wharton Social Venture Fund (WSVF), a flagship program operated under the Wharton Social Impact Initiative (WSII) which allows students to select, curate and diligence investments that will change the world.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Triple Jeopardy: Report details the discrimination facing girls and women with leprosy
Report published today warns that the new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals will fail in their aim to “leave no one behind” if discrimination against girls and women affected by leprosy is not tackled.
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- Education, Health Care
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