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Measuring Up: USAID Proposes New Indicators to Assess Countries’ “Journey to Self-Reliance”
“The ultimate goal of foreign assistance must be to work toward the day when foreign assistance is no longer necessary, and we must measure our work by how far every investment moves us closer to that day,” said Fine, who is Acting Assistant to the Administrator of USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning.
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- Impact Assessment
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A new indicator of human development at subnational level
The farther one moves from capital and big cities, the weaker the educational and health facilities and the less the economic opportunities.
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- Impact Assessment
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- data, global development, SDGs
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Report: Record Number Of Indians With Bank Accounts. So Why Is Financial Inclusion Low?
Mumbai: Up to 80% of Indians now have a bank account, the same proportion that has a mobile phone, but financial inclusion levels are still among the world’s worst, lower than sub-Saharan Africa on some counts, according to a new report.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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Reconciling Paris Agreement goals for temperature, emissions—study finds two targets don’t always go hand in hand
As society faces the challenge of limiting warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius, new research finds an apparent contradiction: Achieving that goal doesn't necessarily require cutting greenhouse gas emissions to zero, as called for in the Paris Agreement. But under certain conditions, even zero emissions might not be enough.
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- Energy, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- climate change
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Press release: International Monetary Fund Releases Gender Disaggregated Financial Access Survey
As part of its commitment to support financial inclusion, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) conducts an annual Financial Access Survey (FAS). The FAS is a high-quality supply-side financial inclusion database with a global reach to support policy analysis and formulation in the financial inclusion area. The 2016 FAS round included a pilot to capture the financial access gender data gap and support the IMF’s analysis of women’s economic empowerment in boosting growth and reducing income inequality. [2] The pilot, which included the participation of 28 countries, revealed that in almost half of the participating economies, financial service providers had access to their customers’ gender information.
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- data, financial inclusion
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Report: Do companies walk the talk on investing in communities in India?
The third edition of IRBI 2017 report reveals that community development remains a significant thrust area for businesses for their social development projects, but a closer look reveals many shortcomings
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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More Governments Are Turning To Impact Bonds–But Do They Deliver?
The model of the social impact bond, now eight years old, is spreading. Figures recently released by Social Finance, a nonprofit that arranges SIBs, says there are now 108 around the world.
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- Impact Assessment
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Press release: Acumen launches energy impact report
The Energy Impact Report, the first of its kind for the organization, is the culmination of 7,500 interviews with 5,500 off-grid energy customers across 11 countries using Acumen’s Lean Data methodology. Designed specifically for social enterprises, Lean Data is a customer-centric, technology-based approach to impact measurement that enables Acumen to speak directly with low-income customers at scale and collect high-quality impact data at a fraction of the cost of existing approaches.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment
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- data