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Financial Education in the Digital Age: It’s affordable, it’s scalable – but does it work?
Financial education is a key strategy for achieving full financial inclusion. But in-person group training by a human trainer have failed to consistently improve beneficiaries’ knowledge and behavior, and they are often too costly to scale. Nowadays, however, individualized financial education can reach millions at a low cost via digital platforms. IPA is examining the impact and potential of these programs.
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- Education
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Wireless Wallets Open Up Health, Education Models: Early observations from two sectors in Kenya harnessing mobile money
While M-Pesa is not as commonly used in Kenya’s social sectors as one would expect, Bridge International Academies and Penda Health currently use mobile money to extend education and health services to the poor. An on-the-ground evaluation found many differences between the programs but some similarities, too, and opportunities to learn.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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Champions of the Toilet: The best way to solve open defecation, the authors say, is to focus on demand, not construction
Access to toilets doesn’t always fix the problem of open defecation; in fact, partial coverage generates insignificant health benefits. Therefore, to address India’s malnutrition and health crisis, it is important to promote widespread adoption of toilet use.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health
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PRESS RELEASE: Inaugural “Inclusive Finance India Global Summit” Promotes Financial Inclusion
The first “Inclusive Finance India Global Summit” in Delhi, organized by ACCESS, a national think tank, was inaugurated on Monday (December 8) by Shri HR Khan, deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The two days of deliberations at the Summit covered issues related to Financial Inclusion, Financial Education and Financial Stability, and built a Financial Inclusion Vision 2020. MetLife Foundation is proud to be one of the two principal partners in the Inclusive Finance Summit.
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- Education
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- South Asia
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MBA’s Start-Up Ventures Make a Social Impact in Emerging Markets
MBA students prove that entrepreneurs can create a great social impact and develop profitable business models at the same time.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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NexThought Monday – 12/8/14: Safaricom, share your M-PESA data!: Why we need data philanthropy in Kenya
With 15 million users and 2 million transaction per day, Safaricom has achieved historic success with its M-PESA mobile money product in Kenya. It has also compiled a historic amount of data, and the granularity is electrifying. This data would be a treasure trove to financial inclusion actors, says James Schintz of MIX, in an impassioned plea for Safaricom to engage in "data philanthropy."
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- Education
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GSK Opens £4 Million Research Grant on Non-Communicable Diseases
Apparently to find scientific answers to why Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) are rising on the African continent, GlaxoSmitheKline (GSK) has opened a £4m grant initiative to researchers in the region.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- research
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The HBS-Accion Program on Strategic Leadership in Inclusive Finance is Accepting Applications
The 2015 Harvard Business School – Accion Program on Strategic Leadership in Inclusive Finance is now accepting applications for what will be another exceptional week of learning and exchange among world leaders in financial inclusion. The program will take place April 6-11, 2015 at the HBS campus in Boston, Massachusetts.
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- Education
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