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Analysis Firms Battling for Pole Position as Impact Investing Goes Big
Big claims were a common theme at TBLI 2013, a sustainable finance conference held in Zurich, Switzerland, this past November. There's a feeling that sustainable finance is on the cusp of going big, and small and large companies alike are lining up to join the race to be the one the industry will turn to for a variety of services, in areas ranging from metrics creation and impact evaluation to data collection.
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NexThought Monday – Announcing the Most Influential Posts of 2013
We asked for your vote, and NextBillion readers cast more than 16,000 in our contest to pick the Most Influential Post of the year. Here are your winners for 2013.
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Hyderabad institute launches social entrepreneurship program with Columbia University
The Institute of Management Technology, Hyderabad, announced the one-of-a-kind joint 'Social Entrepreneurship' program with Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). The Social Entrepreneurship Program was inaugurated on January 1 and will commence from January 2 and go on until January 18, 2014.
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Jagirti Yatra – annual train journey across India for social entrepreneurs
On December 24th another departure of Jagirti Yatra, which means “journey of awakening” in Hindi, took place. Since its founding in 2008, the railway odyssey has spawned more than 200 social enterprises.
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Bank Alfalah introduces mobile money service in Pakistan
Pakistani Bank Alfalah has teamed up with operator Warid Telecom to launch a mobile money service. The service, Mobile Paisa, will initially enable users to make utility bill payments and secure money transfers across Pakistan.
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Opinion : Women and the poor are invisible in the Crisil index of financial inclusion in India
Indices such as these are designed to help policymakers and service providers improve financial inclusion, which is often defined as reaching the "unreached". But if the aim is to reach the poor and to reach women, then the figures should give us a break-up by gender
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Opinion : ‘FDI in micro finance will help Muslims’ in India
Studies show that hundreds of Women Self Help Groups and co-operative societies created at Muslim-populated areas were denied recognition as the members were only Muslims.
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Opinion : The economics of microcredit
The problem of adverse selection in a credit market is used to describe a situation where the lender involved in a transaction cannot observe the type or quality of goods or the production of the borrower.
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