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Viewpoint: Where Do Vaccine Fears Come From?
In his 2013 New Yorker article “Slow Ideas,” the Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande offered a compelling way to understand why some good ideas spread slowly (if at all) while others spread like wildfire.
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Does Microfinance Still Hold Promise for Reaching the Poor?
Nearly two decades ago, when the concept of microfinance as a poverty reduction tool was in its infancy, there was hope that microcredit would transform economic and social structures. With its focus on reaching the previously unbanked, microcredit was expected to bring about change at the household level, a market in developing countries that traditional financial institutions had failed to reach.
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Microneedle Patches Could Be the Future of Vaccinations
Georgia Tech professor Mark Praunitz has spent two decades developing microneedle patches.
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- Health Care
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Here Come the Philanthropreneurs
Entrepreneurs using wealth and power to transform society are not a new phenomenon. A century ago, Andrew Carnegie’s love of libraries helped bring education to the masses, and he spent millions promoting world peace. Today’s "philanthropreneurs" are equally ambitious—and they’re succeeding, while redefining what it means to give and give back.
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- Impact Assessment
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Too Global to Fail: The World Bank At the Intersection of National and Global Public Policy
It can be and has been argued that improvements in human welfare achieved over the last few decades have been purchased, at least in part, on credit—that the net gain is less than it seems, perhaps even negative, given the scale of our accumulated liabilities. In part, this is because gains made at the level of households, communities and countries have not been adequately insured against global public ‘bads’—transnational problems whose solution or mitigation generally calls for international cooperation.
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- Environment
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Rwanda: Airtel to Give Clients Soft Loans
A micro-money lending platform whereby subscribers will be able to borrow up to Rwf50,000 payable in two weeks has been launched by telecom services provider, Airtel Rwanda and Atlantis Limited, a micro-finance institution.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Future of Mobile Money: Building Seamless Financing Options Through Clean Energy
Clean energy in developing economies rests with a seamless, ubiquitous, easy-to-use financing platform based on energy and mobile money. Wireless credit is a very important piece of that platform.
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- Energy
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Viewpoint: McKinsey & Company Starts Its Own Version of Bain’s Bridgespan
The announcement that Helene Gayle, the retiring CEO of CARE, was going to be inaugural CEO of the McKinsey Social Initiative struck us as noteworthy for reasons that other press outlets really haven’t covered.
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