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International Labour Office, World Bank to Enhance Access to Insurance in Africa and Asia
The International Labour Office (ILO) and the World Bank Group (WBG) have signed a memorandum of understanding that aims to provide access to improved insurance products to hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers, small businesses and individuals in Asia and Africa.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Skoll Centre Venture Award winners: Tree-planting Quad-Copters and Farmers’ Transport Logistics
Two new social ventures with founding teams from the University of Oxford have been chosen to receive this year’s Skoll Centre Venture Awards. The winners are Biocarbon Engineering, focusing on replanting one billion trees annually through the use of quad-copter technology, and Linkage, which aims to help smallholder farmers in Kenya to improve their selling practises and supply chain using an Uber-like logistics and transport system.
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- Impact Assessment
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OPINION: Social Impact Bonds: Phantom of the Nonprofit Sector
What issue could bring Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Senator Al Franken (D-MN) into bipartisan partnership? Social impact bonds (SIBs)—or pay-for-success (PFS), depending on one’s preferred terminology.
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- Impact Assessment
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From food aid to nutritious, locally produced food: A look at fortifying flour in Ethiopia
Right now in Ethiopia, nearly half of all children under the age of 5 are stunted and anemic.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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3 Essential Elements To Increase The Viability Of Your Social Venture
Every social entrepreneur discovers the same pitfalls on their way to creating impact. But you can avoid them, if you know what to expect.
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- Impact Assessment
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Africans Open Fuller Wallets to the Future
JOHANNESBURG — Across sub-Saharan Africa, consumer demand is fueling the continent’s economies in new ways, driving hopes that Africa will emerge as a success story in the coming years comparable to the rise of the East Asian Tigers in the second half of the 20th century.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Travel The World And Save It At The Same Time: Serial Entrepreneur Hugh Whalan Explains How
Talk about making the world a better place, and you probably won’t find too many naysayers.
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- Impact Assessment
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The BRICS new development bank: A historic game-changer?
Following two years of intense negotiations, the BRICS leaders agreed on 15 July 2014 in Fortaleza (Brazil) to launch the New Development Bank (NDB).
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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