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A microloan can help poor people in Bangladesh. What about New Jersey?
The Grameen Bank, one of the pioneers of microfinance, which has been operating its program in Bangladesh since the 1970s, released a study on one of its programs in New Jersey. The program works like this: Low-income women apply for a microloan as part of a small group, and all members of the group are accountable for ensuring each member makes payments.
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- North America
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TPG Fires McGlashan, Lets Investors Pull Money From Social Fund
McGlashan, who led TPG’s business focused on social good and founded its growth investing platform, was named with other parents in an indictment detailing schemes that involved paying coaches and college administrators to get children into top colleges.
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- impact investing
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Viewpoint: Show Me the Money: Does Going Cashless Hurt Financial Inclusion?
At first glance, the ban on cashless stores seems to fly in the face of the drive towards a truly digital economy, but both sides of the table have compelling arguments.
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- digital payments
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TPG Puts McGlashan on Leave After Charges in College Scandal
The indictment comes at an inopportune time for TPG. The firm planned to start raising money for its second Rise Fund last year.
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Viewpoint: The Problem With Opportunity Zones
The framework, funded in part by the Kresge Foundation, is an important first set of principles to guide this rapidly emerging market. But those principles are only as useful as their adoption.
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MacArthur Commits $150 Million to Make Impact Investing Easier for Others
Solving really big problems, like extreme poverty around the world and climate change, will take trillions of dollars, says Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. "To bring that kind of capital to bear on the problems we hope to solve, we will need to work closely across philanthropic, public, and private sources of capital."
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Press release: Microfinance is Instrumental in Alleviating Financial Hardship in the United States – Early Results of an MDRC Study of Grameen America
The first-of-its-kind random assignment study examined 1,492 women (in 300 loan groups) who applied in groups of five to the Grameen America microlending program in Union City, New Jersey. Applicant groups were assigned at random into two groups: those eligible to receive Grameen America loans (the program group) and those not eligible (the control group). The outcomes of the two groups were compared over time.
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Omidyar Network spins out its fintech investment arm as Flourish, with up to $300 million
Equipped with up to $300 million in capital for operations and investments, the new Flourish will continue to invest around the Network’s core mission of backing companies with a dual focus on making a social impact and achieving quality financial returns.
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