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Handheld Poverty Fighters: Building the Killer Apps of Global Prosperity
Among many in the development space, connective technologies are either the cheat code to global prosperity or a false prophet obscuring the real challenges effecting the world’s poor. Officials as high-ranking as Secretary Hillary Clinton have called the spread of cheap cell phones and laptops a driving force against poverty even as many of their most promising applications are failing to deliver on scale.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Off the Grid Solutions in Mobile, Solar Schools: Four mini case studies of business, nonprofit, CSR, models
Beep beep! For some students, hopping on the school bus is hopping into the classroom. Four communities are using solar-powered mobile classrooms to overcome inaccessibility to the power grid.
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- Education, Energy, Impact Assessment
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Release of 2012 MIV Survey – growth stabilizes in spite of lower rates and investor redemptions
Washington D.C., October 16, 2012 – Today MicroRate released The State of Microfinance Investment 2012, which finds that microfinance investment has stabilized into a lower growth rate following the global financial crisis.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- microfinance, research
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GlaxoSmithKline opens door on data in bid to aid discovery of medicines
British drugs company releases findings of clinical trials and announces new effort to find tropical disease cures
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
- Region
- Europe & Eurasia
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- research
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Can A Motivated Group Of People Change The Way Markets Work For The Better?
Criterion Ventures is trying to rebrand the idea of systems change, and change a few major systems--like the rules that govern the entire economy--along the way.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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How Entrepreneurs Can Fight Drug Traffickers
There’s nothing like attending the heady, exhilarating Clinton Global Initiative to get me out of the operational trenches of entrepreneurship for social change. But this year, I was distracted by a conversation taking place just down the street at the UN General Assembly—on drug trafficking.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
- Region
- Latin America
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Oxfam launches fund to make ‘impact investments’ in the developing world
The overseas aid charity is linking up with the City of London Corporation and Symbiotics to help small and medium-sized enterprises, with the first investment in Mongolia
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Entrepreneur brings color to the desert
A man-made oasis in China's seventh biggest desert, Kubuqi, on the southern bank of the Yellow River, has been the backdrop for several international environmental events this year.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
- Region
- Asia Pacific