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According to Pamela Hartigan, director of the Skoll Centre at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, “social enterprise” is a mindset, not a “sector,” and we’d all be better off recognizing that.
Weekly Roundup 11-13-15: What’s in a Name?News
Those wedged between India's welfare and market-driven economies have little social security even as they work under precarious employment conditions.
Financial Inclusion: Focus on Middle IndiaBlog Post
Women in sub-Saharan Africa produce up to 80 percent of all foodstuffs, but often struggle, for various reasons, to access the resources that they need to achieve higher yields on their farms. Their families and communities often suffer as a result. It's a dilemma TechnoServe is addressing with its Smallholder Poultry Agribusiness Development (SPADE) initiative.
Three Keys to Engaging Women FarmersNews
The mobile money agency system has made huge progress in increasing access to financial services and reducing the cost of transactions, though in terms of serving the “last mile” – those wishing to make single dollar transactions – there is still much to be done. But the answer may be staring us in the face, says Vahid Monadjem, CEO of Nomanini.
Merchant Solutions Could Be the Answer to Mobile Money IssuesBlog Post
Xavier Giné (World Bank), Greg Fischer (London School of Economics) and Dean Karlan (Yale University) discuss the challenges and opportunities in designing digital financial services for the poor.
Three Key Lessons for Responsible Digital FinanceBlog Post
A new research paper released by the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) explores the relationship between a family’s financial health and its children’s well-being, illuminating the need and opportunity for financial services to play a greater role in supporting child and family success. Doing so can help providers deepen relationships with customers today and with their children in the future.
Not Just Child’s Play: Why the financial services industry can – and should – support children’s well-beingNews
For a century, epidemics of meningococcal A meningitis, a bacterial infection of the lining of the brain and spinal cord, have swept across 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa killing and disabling young people every year. The disease is highly feared on the continent; it can kill or cause severe brain damage within hours.
Affordable and Effective Vaccine Brings Africa Close to Elimination of Meningitis ABlog Post
In this, the third in a series of articles about women entrepreneurs participating in the year-long Vital Voices GROW Fellowship, they speak in glowing terms of the virtual learning part of their training. Next up, they'll gather for in-person training.
Tools for Economic Empowerment: Virtual learning in the Vital Voices GROW Fellowship
