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Viewpoint: Now More Than Ever
The report analyzes the impact on extreme poverty of global economic contractions at three levels. In the best-case scenario, a 5% contraction, the researchers anticipate that 87 million people would fall into extreme poverty – half of them in South Asia where Upaya works.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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Pandemic Disrupts Remittances, Leaving Immigrants’ Families Without Lifelines
In normal times, millions of small financial transactions take place daily worldwide when immigrants wire a portion of their earnings to loved ones back home.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- migrants, remittances
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Mobile Money Helps Displaced Congolese Survive Amid Coronavirus Threat
Vital help now comes by mobile phone and hence reduces the transmission risks linked with physical interactions.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- cash transfers
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Will COVID-19 Lead to Accelerated Impact Investing?
The pandemic is causing huge disruptions in the financial market.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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Viewpoint: Why Social Entrepreneurs Are Critical to Our Response to and Recovery From the COVID-19 Crisis
Social entrepreneurs solve market and government failures by serving excluded and vulnerable populations, which are most at risk to impacts of COVID-19.
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- Coronavirus
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Google and Gates Foundation to Help Spread Digital Payments in Developing Countries
The initiative would help tie together a growing array of digital financial services.
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- Finance, Technology
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How The Pandemic Is Impacting Coffee Supply Chains In Central And South America
In Central American countries where the harvest has all but wrapped up, the challenges are being felt post-harvest. In South America, where the coffee harvest is just beginning, governments have made coffee part of the ‘essential’ economy and farm owners are still able to access their fields.
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- Latin America
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Press Release: DOMINI Launches the Domini Sustainable Solutions Fund to Help Tackle Global Sustainability Challenges
Domini Impact Investments LLC, a U.S. pioneer in the impact investing field, is pleased to announce the recent launch of the Domini Sustainable Solutions Fund, a new mutual fund dedicated to investing in innovative, solution-oriented companies contributing solutions to global sustainability challenges.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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