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Tiered vs. Equitable Pricing: Why Access to Medicine Index 2014 takes societal needs, affordability into account
The lead researcher with the Access to Medicine Index, which ranks pharmaceutical companies’ efforts to improve access to medicine for priority diseases in developing countries, explains how and why the Index’s pricing methodology evolved from measuring tiered-pricing strategies to measure what the Index terms “equitable pricing strategies” instead.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- supply chains
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Cheaper, Faster, Better?: Mercy Corps compares E-transfers and cash in the DRC
International humanitarian agencies are increasingly offering cash and vouchers as humanitarian assistance. But distributing cash carries security risks for agencies and recipients, while presenting accounting and logistical challenges. Electronic alternatives or vouchers could address these issues, but how well do they work? Mercy Corps studied the question in a program in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- digital payments, research
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Are Impact Accelerators/Incubators Targeting Emerging Markets Any Good?
Seems every time you turn around, there’s a new impact incubator or accelerator aimed at social enterprises in developing countries. But that doesn’t mean they’re any good.
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- Impact Assessment
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World Bank commits over $1 billion to Bangladesh
The fund would benefit almost 36 million people by improving the quality of primary education, building coastal communities’ resilience to natural disaster, and increasing the nutrition and cognitive development of children.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- South Asia
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Q&A with Ashoka’s Maria Escorcia: Boosting Entrepreneurship for Social Change
Changemakers can come from anywhere, including the corporate world. Just look at Maria Escorcia, director of the South Florida chapter of Ashoka, a nonprofit that supports a network of 3,000 social entrepreneurs around the world.
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- Impact Assessment
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Simple but Impactful: Transforming Nigeria’s Vaccine Supply Chain
Vaccine supplies and logistics are a fundamental component of any immunization system. In Nigeria, any hope of achieving the goal of 87 percent vaccine coverage by 2015 will remain out of reach unless vaccines and devices reach heath facilities on time and in the right quantity. The greatest difficultly lies in reaching the last mile—getting vaccines to those in the hardest-to-reach corners of Nigeria.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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2014 in Impact Investing: The Big Bang and its Aftermath
Impact investing reached and surpassed the tipping point in 2014, ceasing to be an insiders' game.
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- Impact Assessment
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PRESS RELEASE: Corporate Commitment to Impact Investing Will Reach Record Heights in 2015
Madeira Global, a premier New York-based investment and advisory firm servicing qualified investors and institutions in the area of Impact Investing, today released its 2015 Impact Outlook for the marketplace. The firm asserts that corporate commitment to impact investing is set to reach record heights in 2015 due to the combination of heightened corporate social responsibility programs and a return to the laws of fundamental investing into companies with strong environmental, social and governance practices. The milestones seen in 2014, such as Prudential committing to build a $1 billion impact investment portfolio by 2020, will serve as precursors to the 2015 impact investment landscape.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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