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Mobile Phones Will Not Save the Poorest of the Poor
Entrepreneurs, businesses, NGOs, and governments exalt mobile technology as a game-changing tool to fight global poverty. But what if our eagerness to connect the world is inadvertently exacerbating the global economic divide? The cost of cellphone-based services is hurting huge swaths of the developing world.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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U.C. Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab Part of White House Poverty Push
Both the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory above it on the hill are part of a public-private push to fight poverty around the world.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Akhuwat: Making Microfinance Work
A groundbreaking microfinance model is bringing out the best in society and bucking the trend of giving out loans that could realistically never be paid back.
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- South Asia
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Indian Eye Clinic Uses Tiered Pricing to Combat Blindness Among Poor
An expanding network of eye clinics has found an innovative way of providing quality, affordable treatment to millions of blind and visually impaired poor people in India
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Are Mobile Solutions Overhyped?
Are mobiles just another high-tech solution to what are essentially systemic and deeply rooted problems? Are mobile solutions for combating global poverty overhyped?
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- Technology
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Empowering the Haitian People
Sustain Haiti is a non-denominational, independent group of Haitians, development specialists, students, social entrepreneurs, and concerned citizens based in Provo, UT. It was created and began sending volunteers and aid to the country of Haiti after a 7.0 earthquake rocked the country in January of 2010.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Latin America
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Microfinance Services in Ghana Greeted With Hope, Concern
Microfinance, providing financial services to low-income clients, has gained popularity in Ghana in the past 20 years and has played an important role in helping the poor - especially women - improve their lives.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Avoiding the “Hope Bubble”
We must invest in the financial literacy of social entrepreneurs and in the social literacy of investors.
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