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Microcredit was devised as a free market solution that would enable the global poor to escape their own poverty by starting an income-generating activity. But Milford Bateman argues that due to deregulation, commercialization - and fundamental flaws in the model - microcredit has instead undermined developing economies and trapped the poor in a cycle of debt.
NexThought Monday (1/20/14) – The Tragic Failure of Microcredit: Yunus’ Dream Has Become a Nightmare for the Global PoorBlog Post
Family farms in Mexico and Central America average five acres, and most of these produce only enough to feed themselves. The central challenge is helping these subsistence farmers use their five acres to become small businesses and engines of the local economy.
NexThought Monday – How Latin America Can Feed the World : Our biggest challenge lies in how we work togetherBlog Post
2014 has been a good year. Wait, a bad year. ... Turns out, it all depends on whose tweets you happen to read. We attempt to bring clarity to it all with our weekly wrap-up.
Twitter Top Ten – 12/21/14: Our favorite tweets of the weekBlog Post
At the Scaling Corporate Social Enterprise Conference in Santiago, Chile Ron Adner, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, invited us to think always about the extra mile that our innovation requires. Here’s why: Because innovation on its own, loose, is not enough.
Scaling Corporate Social Enterprise Conference: Why innovation is not enoughBlog Post
With so many apps and intervention techniques available in the private and public sectors, there is now more than ever a greater focus on these applications’ abilities to integrate and work as a system. When multiple structures are integrated into a single comprehensive design, governments can plan health systems that connect electronic and mobile interventions.
‘One Foot on a Glacier and the Other on a Bullet Train’: Forum participants discuss moving mHealth toward national health system integrationNews
The Global Banking Alliance for Women (GBA) is proud to announce a partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Data2X to expand the collection and use of financial data on women in economies around the world. The commitment was announced this morning at an event in New York headlined by speakers Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Michael R. Bloomberg, during a panel moderated by Chelsea Clinton. The initiative aims to close the gender data gap in the banking sector, leading to greater financial inclusion and empowerment of women.
PRESS RELEASE: Global Banking Alliance for Women Announces Partnership to Close Gender Data Gap in FinanceBlog Post
As we move one step closer to the end of the year, we’ve got a full slate of interesting tweets from the past week. They include some encouraging investments and new partnerships, important new research, and an intriguing reply from Safaricom to a recent NextBillion post. As always, if you see anything you like, be sure to retweet it.
Twitter Top Ten – 12/14/14: Our favorite tweets of the weekBlog Post
What is needed to improve the financial lives of low-income people in the U.S.? CFSI and Visa recently hosted a discussion on this question with notable financial services executives. They challenged the group to identify solutions for the 68 million financially underserved Americans. Kimberly Gartner, CFSI’s Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, describes the conversation that ensued.
Building Quality Products to Improve Low-Income Americans’ Financial Health: CFSI, Visa discussion conveys key challenges and opportunities for U.S. financial services providers
