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North American impact investors are keeping their money close to home
Most of the world’s poor live in developing markets. And, according to some experts, so do ventures with the most long-term growth potential. But relatively few North American impact investments leave Canada and the United States. Are impact investors missing out?
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How door-to-door business can empower rather than repress women
It's easy to criticise business for expanding into developing countries. But if it helps poor and isolated women, is it all bad?
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Oando seals pact with LAPO on access to cooking gas
Following its plan to switch millions of Nigerians from biomass to a clean and sustainable cooking gas, Oando Marketing Plc has entered into an agreement with Lift Above Poverty Organisation Microfinance Bank (LAPO) to provide soft loans for low-income households in Nigeria to purchase Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).
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100 Free Career Videos for Milennials
San Francisco (September 5, 2012) - The online knowledge network iOnPoverty.tv today announced that its entire 2012 video collection is now online and free to students, unemployed graduates and young professionals seeking jobs and careers in economic opportunity and justice work.
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Making housing more affordable in Mexico
In many parts of the world, if families outgrow their homes they simply add on to them. They grow 'em, piece by piece, room by room, brick by brick, when they get some extra cash. But, turns out, that's not very efficient. It wastes money, supplies, and lots of time.Alex Goldmark reports from Mexico, on a new way to build affordable housing -- and I mean really affordable.
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Social entrepreneur connects African women to global e-commerce
Ella Peinovich is a MIT graduate and one of the three founders of Kenyan-based SasaAfrica, a women owned and operated social enterprise, which offers an innovative e-commerce platform for female artisans, vendors and entrepreneurs in Africa to create sustainable micro-enterprises using mobile phones.
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In Andhra Pradesh, moneylenders rush to fill vacuum created by MFIs
The Andhra Pradesh crackdown on microfinance companies has driven an increasing number of poor borrowers in the State back into the arms of local moneylenders, a recent survey shows.
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New Impact Investing Stock Exchange Is Making Steady Progress
It looks as though The Impact Exchange Board, or the iX, a ground-breaking publicly regulated social stock exchange, has been making steady progress since it launched about a year ago.
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