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  Why do young workers in developing countries have so many injuries?

  Health and safety at work can get ridiculed in more affluent countries as something nannyish and interfering - but for much of the developing world it is a matter of life and death.

• Blog Post
  On World Press Freedom Day: Why Investing in Independent Media Supports Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

  More than 87 percent of people – about 6 billion – live in countries without a free press, and every five days a media worker is killed for doing their job – including more than 800 in the past decade. Today as we observe the UN's World Press Freedom Day, Peter Whitehead reminds us that independent media businesses not only hold governments accountable and advance progress toward the SDGs – they're also an investable opportunity.

• Blog Post
  From New York to Madagascar: Why I Moved My Fintech Startup to Africa

  “Everyone has a plan ‘till they get punched in the mouth.” That Mike Tyson quote rang true for Sidharth Garg, who was forced to go back to the drawing board after his Manhattan-based fintech startup's chatbot failed to engage customers. But that setback soon became an opportunity: Garg explains how shifting focus from the U.S. to Madagascar set the company on a new path to growth, in the latest post in NextBillion's "Course Correction in Social Enterprise" series.
  
  

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  When Student Could Not Find His Calling, He Used Architecture to Build Some Stability for Refugees

  Upon further research, Scott learned that between 15-20 million of them still live in tents, essentially camping in terrible conditions for 12 to 17 years on average. Between that, and the general lack of innovation as it relates to shelters, Scott quickly realized he’d found his calling.

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  Indonesia’s ‘Superheroines’ Empowered with Renewables

  Women and renewables empowerment programme expands solar energy access to Indonesia’s off-grid communities

• Blog Post
  A Test Case for Digital Leap-Frogging: What the Financial Inclusion Community Can Learn from Vietnam

  With its rapid economic expansion, large unbanked population, high mobile penetration and progressive regulations, Vietnam has the potential to leap-frog over brick-and-mortar banking and arrive directly at the forefront of digital finance. Krishna Thacker of MetLife Foundation in Asia profiles an emerging innovator in the country's mobile payments space, and explores lessons learned in driving the uptake of digital financial services.

• Blog Post
  Portable, Reliable and Safe: Billions Need Anaesthesia – Partnerships Can Deliver It

  When global crises rivet the world’s attention to a conflict or a disaster-struck region, people take notice and respond. But they tend to ignore the fact that 5 billion of the 7 billion people in the world lack access to basic surgery – and the safe anesthesia care necessary to facilitate it. Andrea Charters of Diamedica talks about the life-saving work doctors are able to perform using the company’s portable anesthesia machine – and the potential to cure the everyday disaster of inequality in global health care.
  

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  How Steve Jobs inspired PARK, a soccer social enterprise that’s on the hunt for $500,000 in equity crowdfunding

  As Apple’s former creative director, Davy regularly sat down with Jobs and even worked on developing a “global giving platform” through iTunes. It was a project that never fully eventuated due to Jobs’ health difficulties, but in the following years, Davy kept coming back to the idea of business models that make a solid impact.