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The World We Want: Business development will play a much larger role in the future Millennium Development Goals
As we near 2015, the world needs to remain focused on securing as much progress as possible on the current set of Millennium Development Goals. UNDP joined forces with Business Fights Poverty, the Business Call to Action, the Overseas Development Institute and the UN Global Compact to explore, from a business perspective, what a future development framework might look like.
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Village Capital & Venture Well Team Up to Launch an Accelerator Focused on Clean Tech and Mobile ICT
Village Capital and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance’s (NCIIA) Venture Well have joined to offer early stage IT and cleantech entrepreneurs the opportunity to win $100,000 in seed money. Teams selected from across the nation will take part in a two and a half month competition beginning with a conference for selectees the weekend of November 29, 2012 in Boston. T
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Samsung, KWFT pact to boost mobile banking
NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 10 – Samsung has partnered with local microfinance solutions provider, Kenya Women Finance Trust – Deposit Taking Microfinance (KWFT-DTM) to promote the uptake of mobile technology solutions among women.
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What’s Wrong with ‘Banking the Unbanked’?: Measuring active bank accounts is a better metric for financial inclusion
While the possession of a bank account may be a step toward financial inclusion, it should not be confused with genuine inclusion. A bank account puts people on a path toward financial inclusion, we cannot be at all certain that they are proceeding down the path.
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The month of impact investing
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) — From the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City to the Social Capital Markets gathering in San Francisco to the SRI in the Rockies conference held in Connecticut, to new reports, membership associations and web sites launched this month, the focal point is impact investing.
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Reasonably Big Changes at the Unreasonable Insitute : Disruption is our business, which is why we’re shaking things up
Unreasonable’s aim is to positively impact billions of lives, not thousands. To do this, we need to scale and then scale some more, we need to make sure we continuously improve as an organization to provide the best possible blueprint for the program to be reproduced all over the world. So for the 2013 institute we are working to deepen the quality of our program for those who participate and we’re making a few changes:
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Kyrgyzstan’s Leading Microfinance Institution, Bai Tushum, Becomes A Bank
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, Oct. 5, 2012 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On September 26 microfinance company Bai Tushum and Partners received preliminary permission from the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic to operate as a bank.
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Accion Invests $3 Million in Mobile Services Provider Tiaxa
Accion announced today that its Frontier Investments Group has invested US$3 million in Zonamovil Inc. (“Tiaxa”), a Chilean provider of managed services for the wireless telecom market. For more than 10 years, Tiaxa has provided mobile network operators globally with billing and rating services for prepaid mobile phone users, as well as innovative financial and business intelligence services that increase operator revenues and improve user satisfaction and loyalty.
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