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A New Ally in Cocoa Sustainability
Acumen partnered with Hershey to publish Cocoa Interrupted:The Role for Social Enterprise in Cocoa Sustainability. The report presents an opportunity for the cocoa industry to bring new ideas and new solutions to the challenges facing cocoa farmers and their communities through collaboration with social enterprises.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper
Cancer surgery for $700, a heart bypass for $2,000. Pretty good, but under India’s new health-care system, it’s not good enough.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- public policy, regulations
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Viewpoint: Learning from Financial Inclusion Research: What Should We Expect?
There is a real puzzle in the world of financial inclusion: Where’s the impact? The question is not unique to financial inclusion, but it is a particularly pressing one.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment
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Remittances to developing world hit record in 2019: World Bank
Money transfers to poor and developing countries hit a fresh record in 2018 and should become their largest source of external financing this year, the World Bank said Monday.
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- Finance
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- remittances
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World Changing Ideas 2019: 17 winning solutions that could save the planet
Fast Company is excited to announce the winners of the 2019 World Changing Ideas awards. World Changing Ideas, now in its third year, celebrates businesses, policies, and nonprofits that are poised help shift society to a more sustainable and more equitable future.
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- Technology
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First-of-its-kind development impact bond launched in Cameroon to save newborn babies
The Cameroon Kangaroo Mother Care Development Impact Bond (Cameroon KMC DIB) aims to reach more than 2,200 newborns with life-improving care. Money will fund scale up of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) in Cameroon to help newborns survive and thrive.
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- Finance, Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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This new form of currency could transform the way we see money
CBDC may be issued for general use (“retail” CBDC) for peer-to-peer payments and payments from consumers to merchants; or for use by commercial banks and clearing houses (“wholesale” CBDC) for more efficient interbank payments that occur outside traditional correspondent banking and other payment systems.
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- Finance
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Major New UN Report Calls for Overhaul of Global Financial System
The report is a joint product of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development, which is comprised of more than 60 United Nations Agencies and international organizations.
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