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Report: India’s government is yet to achieve its financial inclusion goal
“If we don’t catch up in accordance with the requirements of the society, a day won’t be very far off when we are faced with serious challenges of a large section of senior citizens who are completely devoid of any form of dependency itself,” Jaitley added at the release of the latest edition of Crisil inclusix report.
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- South Asia
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When Nonprofits Have A Financial Emergency, There’s Now A Fund To Bail Them Out
Nonprofits and social enterprises generally lack extra funds to help out if things go wrong. Unlike traditional businesses, it’s hard to develop a rainy-day fund when donors (or investors) expect most of your money to toward changing lives.
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How Tanzania is betting on coding to help close the gender gap in its tech sector
Even nations that have dramatically closed gender gaps in education and labor force participation have struggled to increase women’s participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. For instance, women hold about 26% of computer and mathematical jobs in the US, slightly below the level in 1960. For a country like Tanzania, which has a promising, budding tech industry, solving this problem could be vital to its future.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- gender equality
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New Women-Led RIA to Focus on Impact Investing: Portfolio Products
“Nia Impact Capital is the next step in our evolution and is inspired by our mission to create world-class impact investing solutions with an emphasis on women,” Hull said in a statement. “Our team is focused on supporting wealth professionals to meet the growing interest from their clients to align their wealth and their values.”
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- Investing
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- North America
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The intensifying battle for Africa’s burgeoning tech landscape
The scale and complexity of Africa’s technical landscape sits at the heart of the problem, and connectivity issues are particularly prevalent. Internet users in Africa represent only 10 percent of the total users in the world, despite representing 16 percent of the world population, according to Internet World Stats. And only 31 percent of the total population has access to the internet, which represents a penetration that is well below the rest of the world at 52 percent.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press release: Financial Solutions Lab Launches $3 Million Year-Four Competition to Support the Financial Health of Underrepresented Communities
Given the diversity of Americans who struggle with financial health, in this year’s Challenge, the Lab is particularly interested in products developed by entrepreneurs of color, women and people with disabilities, and designed to meet the financial needs of often overlooked populations.
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- Finance
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- North America
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From tea to takeaways, has SE Asia lost its appetite for business that does good?
Majidah was one of dozens of social entrepreneurs who received grants from Malaysia’s government as part of a 2015 national plan to boost the number of businesses with a mission to help people or the environment to 1,000 by 2018 from 100.
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- Uncategorized
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- Asia Pacific
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Press release: ImpactUs’ mission continues through strategic acquisition by MissionPoint
Their shared interest was to build the necessary infrastructure to connect private impact investments with institutions, individuals and financial advisors. Many of the equity partners will remain connected through an Impact Advisory Group that the new venture plans to establish to provide insight around product sourcing and impact.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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