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IDB’s assignment: A proposal to reform private sector operations
The Inter-American Development Bank’s annual meeting has concluded with a lot of promise for businesses in the region, from the establishment of a new Chinese cofinanced fund to a plan to streamline the activities of the bank’s private sector windows.
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Connecting the dots between vaccines and hunger
Comic Relief started as a response to the 1984 famine in Ethiopia. Any solution to the persisting problem of global hunger must factor in immunization.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Questioning the TOMS Shoes Model for Social Enterprise
After visiting Argentina and seeing the impact of poverty on some of its children, Blake Mycoskie was inspired to create a philanthropic “for-profit business that was sustainable and not reliant on donations.” The result was Toms Shoes, which promised that for every pair of shoes it sold, it would give away another pair to a child in need.
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Tackling poverty with social enterprise
Despite the promising economic growth exhibited by African nations in the last decade, the spectre of food poverty still looms large.
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Asian Development Bank : Pay-As-You-Go Model Expands Solar Energy Access in Rural India
More than 60,000 households in rural India will have better access to electricity by 2015 as Simpa Networks, a company supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), scales up the sales of its off-grid, pay-as-you-go solar energy solutions.
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LAPO Boss: Microfinance Industry Needs Intellectual Leadership
LIFT Above Poverty Organisation (LAPO) operated as a pro-poor non-government organisation (NGO) more than two decades before it was licensed a microfinance institution in 2010. The same year it was recognised by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as a micro lender, it paid out N21.9 billion loans.
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Immune Finding Aids Quest for Vaccines to Beat Tropical Infections
Scientists are a step closer to developing vaccines for a range of diseases that affect 200 million people, mainly in tropical south-east Asia, Africa and Central America.
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At USAID, more post-sequestration scenarios emerge
Anxiety could be sensed among aid implementers meeting Thursday at the U.S. Agency for International Development headquarters in Washington, D.C. Just like most people working in the area, they worry about what lies ahead in the wake of the sequestration.
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