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Human-Centered Design: The Key to Mobile Money Adoption?
While mobile money is now available in almost every emerging market, active usage remains low. In fact, only about 30 percent of registered mobile money accounts are actively used, according to the most recent GSMA State of the Industry report. Bridging this crucial gap between registration and active usage will require providers to design products and services that are not simply ‘great ideas,’ but that truly meet the needs of end users.
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Impact Investing for the Average American
Impact investing has become a buzz word in social enterprise circles but, even today, opportunities to invest are hardly accessible to the average American. Barriers include protective federal regulations as well as the inability to reach scale.
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- Impact Assessment
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Financing Sustainable Fisheries With Impact Investments
What’s good for the fish is good for the fishing communities — and for impact investors. That’s the thesis of three new vehicles for investing in sustainable fisheries that will be tested in the Philippines, Chile, and Brazil over the next two years and then offered to investors more broadly.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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Latin America: Social Impact Investment Grows
In Latin America, there is clear need to promote entrepreneurship that seeks both economic return as well as social impact.
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- Impact Assessment
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Equity Crowdfunding: 3 Facts Entrepreneurs Should Know
Equity crowdfunding has become a hot topic on the startup scene in recent years. The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which was signed into law in 2012, brought significant changes to certain Securities and ExchangeCommission regulations and made it easier than ever for an emerging business to raise private capital.
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Catalyzing Impact Investments Through Coordinated Grantmaking
In an increasingly resource-constrained world, the ability to drive more impact investments into the communities and issues we care about is imperative
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- Impact Assessment
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Financial Literacy Crucial to Nigeria’s Economic Growth
Financial literacy among Nigerians especially the young people will foster economic growth and development even as the country seeks the attainment of financial inclusion in the economy,
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Aavishkar Hopes to Close $75 M Frontier Fund, Take Impact Investing Model Beyond India
Set to take its impact investing model to Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Pakistan
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia