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Nine Humanitarian Businesses Win Bloomberg-Funded Genesis Challenge
Genesis Generation Challenge Recipients of this year are: Build Israel and Palestine (BIP); Building Up (Canada); eNable 3d Printed Prosthetics; LAVAN (Israel); Prize4Life (Israel); Sanergy (Kenya); Sesame (Israel); Spark (Burundi); and Vera Solutions (United States, India).
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- Education, Health Care
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We’re Learning How to Sell Toilets in West Africa
With the excitement and buzz of World Water Day behind us I’m left both inspired and concerned. I’m inspired because there is a growing understanding by WASH professionals that it will take market development and systemic change to truly solve the problem. These methods look overall at what is working and not working in terms of WASH services for populations at risk across value chains and within the market system, and then, based on that analysis, develop targeted interventions with pro-poor innovations to make markets work. What is also exciting is the impact that adopting and implementing these approaches might have on the development sector in general.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Acumen Increases Its Efforts to Improve India’s Private Education With New Investments
Acumen announces its new investment in Ignis Careers andStandard of Excellence in Education and Development (SEED) to improve the current state of low-cost, private education in India. India has the largest kindergarten to 10th grade system in the world with more than 1.6 million schools. More than 96 percent of children, ranging from ages 6 to 14, are enrolled in school. However, the quality of education is poor, and half of the children in Grade 5 can only read at a Grade 2 level.
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- Education
- Region
- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Bill to Promote Social-Impact Bonds in U.S. Has Support in High Places
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado are trying again to advance legislation that would appropriate $300 million for state and local social-impact bonds over 10 years.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment
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Latin American Organizations Campaign to Ban Monsanto
Doctors, scientists and environmentalists in Argentina, and across Latin America, are demanding a ban on Monsanto products.
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- Agriculture
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- Latin America
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Impact investing takes the bite out of auto loan sharks in the U.S.
Michelle Corson, founder of On the Road Lending, pools investors’ money to finance cars for low-income people at decent rates.
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- Uncategorized
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- impact investing, lending
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Without broadband, financial inclusion in India will remain a ‘pipe dream,’ says telecom regulator chairman
Advocating deeper broadband penetration to ensure success of Jan Dhan scheme, telecom regulator TRAI’s chief Rahul Khullar today said financial inclusion will otherwise remain a “pipe dream” and merely opening bank accounts will not serve the purpose.
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- Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation pushes microinsurance for disaster mitigation
The 21 member-economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is pushing for microinsurance to mitigate the impact of natural disasters.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- microfinance
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