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Paying for Results: Can Banks and Investors Finance Social Success?
Non-profits for everything from homelessness to pre-school have gone to investors to impose capitalist discipline on programs
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Why This Social Entrepreneur Is Paying African Women To Go To Free HIV Clinics
Nigerian women get a small payment everytime they’ve received a treatment in a clinic, proved by their geotagged doctors’ notes.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- microfinance
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Opinion: A Wealthier Africa Will Depend on Health Care
The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) have long been the focus of emerging-market investors. But it is in Africa, a region with the world’s second-fastest growth, where the next big business opportunities lie.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gambia: Rural Electrification Boosts Health Care Delivery
CEO Kebba Badjie recently made these remarks in an exclusive interview with the Daily Observer in Bwiam.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Typhoon Haiyan leaves shattered healthcare in central Philippines
There have been no major outbreaks of disease in Samar and Eastern Samar provinces, but between Jan. 1 and 20 , there were 84 suspected dengue cases in Ormoc City in Leyte Province, leading to the medical evacuation of at least four international aid workers.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Power imbalances between nations ‘undermining global health efforts’
A joint commission from The Lancet and the University of Oslo in Norway finds that the imbalance of political power between nations is failing to protect the public's health, and calls for urgent reform in global decision making.
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- Education, Health Care
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Georgetown gets $10M gift for social innovation
Georgetown University has received a $10 million gift for a new center aimed at fostering innovation among students who want to build skills and organizations to solve society’s problems, the school announced Monday.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- philanthropy
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Reserve Bank of India Eases Lending Norms for Microfinance Institutions
Move gives more leeway to medium-sized micro lenders to price their loans based on their cost borrowings
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- South Asia
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- governance, microfinance