-
Viewpoint: 2016: The Year When Financial Inclusion Turns Big Business
It’s that time of year again. As a new year rolls on in, once again pundits are predicting the upcoming peaks and pitfalls for the FinTech industry in the year ahead.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Creating an Uber Motorcycle Service in Uganda to Get Expectant Mothers to the Clinic
Naboth is 25-year-olds, boda-boda driver. He’s shy, and warm. His father passed away two years ago. Unable to afford school, he bought a boda-boda to support himself and his family. His mother then sent him to a PSI-supported clinic to talk to Jane — a midwife.
- Categories
- Health Care, Transportation
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- transportation
-
Press Release: New Research Shows U.S. Minorities Grossly Underrepresented in Financial Services
New Filene research, Reaching Minority Households: Learning from Minority Credit Unions, shows minorities comprise 30% of all U.S. households but account for fractions of total U.S. household income (23%) and total household wealth (10%). The research also finds minority households are significant customers for nonminority-owned financial providers and offers ways financial institutions can help close the gap.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
- Tags
- research
-
This Is a Global Threat as Big as Climate Change
This morning, I delivered keynote remarks at the release event for the Global Health Risk Framework Commission report on “The Neglected Dimension of Global Security: A Framework to Counter Infectious Disease Crises." The commission, sponsored by the National Academy of Medicine and chaired by Peter Sands, has delivered a very important report on what I think is the issue with the highest ratio of seriousness to policy preparation in the global system. Indeed, for reasons I sketched in my remarks, I believe the threat to global well-being from pandemics over the next century is comparable to the threat from global climate change.
- Categories
- Health Care
-
Viewpoint: Behind Toms Founder Blake Mycoskie’s Plan to Build an Army of Social Entrepreneurs
Last year, Blake Mycoskie confronted the one dilemma all entrepreneurs dream of: what to do with a personal windfall. In Mycoskie’s case, the $200 million (after taxes) that arrived after he sold half of his company, the buy-one, give-one shoe retailer Toms, to Bain Capital. He consulted family and friends, intending to find a philanthropic cause that he could embrace and attack, in the manner of other entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Marc Benioff, and Sergey Brin. But Mycoskie has always been an unusual businessman, a free spirit sprinting down a path of his own invention. His decision: use $100 million of that money to launch an investment fund that will back, well, companies that want to be like Toms.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
-
Viewpoint: Five Impact Investing Predictions for 2016
2015 was an unprecedented momentum-building year for impact investing, and we expect the excitement to continue in 2016. Here are our five predictions for what’s to come.
- Categories
- Investing
- Tags
- impact investing
-
Vaccine Storage Hubs in Six Tribal Districts
The state government is gearing up to strengthen the immunization supply chain in tribal districts to further reduce vaccine preventable infants' deaths.
- Categories
- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
- Tags
- vaccines
-
The Equity Crowdfunding Bandwagon: South East Asia Jumps on Board
Southeast Asia (SEA) represents a burgeoning regional economy comprising of 11 countries with a consolidated GDP of US$2.57 trillion (that’s approximately 15% the size of the US economy), and a combined population of 620 million people. It’s no wonder that there’s a buzz around the potential that the region presents; growing populations, rising wealth of the middle class and a track record of 5.23% GDP y-o-y growth since 2011 form the core pillars of the SEA growth story.
- Categories
- Uncategorized
- Region
- South Asia
- Tags
- crowdfunding
Subscribe to Our Weekly Newsletter, "NextBillion Notes"
Published each Wednesday, our e-newsletter features NextBillion's latest original articles, along with a selection of news, jobs, bizdev opportunities and events from our recent coverage — and regular conference ticket giveaways.
We respect your privacy. Your information is safe and will never be shared.
Don't miss out. Subscribe today.