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Indigenous leaders empowering communities through social enterprise
Initiatives such as a healing centre in the Amazon forest are helping indigenous groups protect and manage their own land.
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- Agriculture
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Three Recommendations to Foster Development in Africa’s Health Markets
As the CEO of a company that markets portable, power-free medical instrument sterilizers to hospitals and health centers in East Africa, Dr. Bernstein has seen first hand the degree to which people are ready to pay for safe and effective medical care. But at the same time there is a conscious effort to avoid the creation of a completely segmented health system where the quality of care is much higher for those who can afford it from the private sector, and huge portions of the population are unable to participate in the market.
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- Environment, Health Care
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‘Innovative’ Sughavazhvu healthcare gaining popularity in rural India
A healthcare system for rural India, dubbed Sughavazhvu, which stands for 'happy life' in Tamil, is gaining popularity thanks to it's use of innovative techniques for providing accessible and appropriate primary healthcare.
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- Health Care
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Obesity Threatens to Overtake Hunger as No. 1 Global Health Concern
In 1950, the number of starving individuals on Earth was estimated to be around 700 million. At the time, obesity affected approximately 100 million people around the globe, primarily in rich countries. These statistics have changed dramatically over the past six decades.
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- Education, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Santa Fe company delivers vaccines to ‘last mile’
A couple of years ago, the head of a management company specializing in high-performance processes and materials met the founder of a nonprofit organization that supports spiritual and medical programs among the Mayan communities of Chiapas in southern Mexico. Ohki S. Forest of Canadian Mohawk descent, who visits Santa Fe periodically, was giving a talk at a conference hosted by the Bioneers, a Santa Fe nonprofit that often serves as a catalyst among social, technological and visionary entrepreneurs.
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- Health Care
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Kenya officially gives green light to three mobile virtual network operators
Kenya’s number of mobile money players could jump from four to seven after the country has officially awarded three mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) licences this week.
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- Uncategorized
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- governance, mobile finance
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Why impact investment could soon be a trillion-dollar industry
By the end of the decade, impact investment has the potential to reach $1 trillion (£600 billion) and deliver significant social benefits, according to Jennifer Kenning, director of wealth management and spearhead of impact investing at US wealth management firm Aspiriant.
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- Impact Assessment
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In India, Bandhan’s banking licence signals competition for rural microfinance
According to MFIs operating in rural areas, private banks have been charging interest rates of 24-26 per cent on a reducing balance.
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- Uncategorized
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- microfinance
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