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Social Stock Exchange – the rise of international competitors
The UK is no longer the only country with a social stock exchange, as Canada follows suit with its own version
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11 verdicts on microfinance
Can smarter regulation restore faith in microfinance or does it need to be completely overhauled? Our live chat panelists offer their thoughts on development's controversial sector.
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Impact Investing, Soros-Style
The Soros Economic Development Fund is quasi-philanthropic and invests in high-risk projects in parts of the world most people couldn’t find on a map. But the Fund is self-sufficient and boasts a “blended” portfolio return of 8 percent a year. How do they do it?
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Alibaba issues China’s first microloan securitization
Orient Securities and Alibaba have issued the nation’s first securitized product backed by microloans.
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Microfinance Apex Bank Proposed in Ghana
Speedy establishment of a Microfinance Apex Bank has been proposed to bolster the microfinance sector, critical for poverty reduction through financial empowerment of low-income people.
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Inclusion — don’t count on banks
We need thousands of small private sector financial intermediaries for promoting financial inclusion.
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Tanzania: Mobile Money Takes Firm Grip On Tanzanians
Mobile money has taken off in Tanzania over the last few years and about a quarter of the population is now using mobile money services.
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A Social Entrepreneur’s Inspiration For Solar-Powered Lighting
Solar-powered light bulbs for the poor: A growing number of social enterprises are selling such technology to bottom of the pyramid households in Africa, India and other countries. One of the first to do so, Denver-based Nokero (for No Kerosene) just introduced its next generation of products, as it works to make the company’s management more professional–and able to grow the enterprise even more.A little more background on the issue: Around 1.3 billion of world’s population lacks access to reliable electricity. Most of them use kerosene lamps, which are very very very expensive compared to incandescent lamps, (people spend as much as 30% of their income on kerosene-based fuels, according to Nokero), cause deadly fires (If you live without electricity, you’re seven times more likely to die by fire than someone with electricity, according to Katsaros), and contribute to air pollution. They don’t produce a whole heck of a lot of light, either
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