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OPINION: Financial Education Is Not Enough in Today’s Economy: We Need Financial Capability
Knowledge and opportunities are part and parcel of financial capability: the combination of financial education and financial inclusion via safe and affordable financial products.
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- Education
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Cambridge University to Adopt Ethical Approach to Multibillion-Dollar Fund
One of the world’s oldest—and richest—universities has decided to adopt a more “ethical” approach to investing its multibillion-dollar endowment fund.
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- Education
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- impact investing
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Alex Counts to Step Down As President and CEO of Grameen Foundation
A little more than 18 years ago, I began my journey as the founding President and CEO of Grameen Foundation (GF). Professor Muhammad Yunus provided me with $6,000 in seed funding and enormous amounts of his time and wisdom, and of course the Grameen brand. Since then, thousands of people and organizations joined me on this journey to contribute to the global movement to eliminate poverty. Grameen Foundation became a daring and caring community of practical idealists that applies the values embodied by Professor Yunus and his team at the global level.
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- Education
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India: The Fight to Become a Science Superpower
With her jeans, T-shirt and spirited attitude, Tapasya Srivastava could pass for a student as she works in her brightly lit cancer-biology lab on the University of Delhi South Campus. Srivastava, who oversees a team of eight researchers, is thrilled that she earned “a small research space of my own” in 2010, while still in her thirties. “With a decent list of publications under my belt, I am one of the few who have studied and undergone training entirely in India,” she says.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- research
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Call for $2B Global Antibiotic Research Fund
The global pharmaceutical industry is being called on to pay for a $2bn (£1.3bn) innovation fund to revitalise research into antibiotics.
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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Experts Call for Global Research Fund for Antibiotics, Ebola and Other Neglected Diseases
There were no drugs to treat Ebola in the outbreak that devastated three west African countries, other diseases of the poor are neglected and the pipeline of new antibiotics has dried up. Experts are calling for a $10 billion fund to pay for research and development ahead of the World Health Assembly in Geneva next week.
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- Education, Health Care
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This Bank of America Exec Helped Create a Virtual Mentoring Program to Connect Women Around the World
She spent one week in South Africa, and one week in Belfast, Ireland. Both trips were with different women, but the purpose was the same: To mentor businesswomen across the globe.
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- Education
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Africa’s Surprising Future
Africa's population is growing rapidly -- and unlike much of the world, it's also getting younger. Based on current trends, the continent's population is poised to increase from just over 1 billion today to more than 4 billion by the end of the century. And while countries like the United States, Japan and many of those in Europe are aging, within the next 35 years, 40% of all our planet's children will likely call Africa home.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa