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He says Columbia has the highest incidence of poverty and extreme poverty when compared to countries with a similar medium income according to GDP per capita. He sees public-private collaborations for social innovation as the answer.
Social Innovation and the Colombian GovernmentBlog Post
2013 was a momentous – perhaps even an historic – year for financial innovation and inclusion, and it has left us primed for a fascinating 2014. Here are seven questions raised by some of 2013’s biggest developments that could resonate in the coming year and beyond.
Crowdfunding, Smartphones and Bitcoin, Oh My…: Seven financial innovation questions that could shape 2014Blog Post
“The Flag,” an extension of a project created in 1957, organizes students in educational, scientific and charitable activities every year in different communities around Brazil.
Flying the Flag of Inspiration: University of São Paulo combines education, community developmentNews
Prompted by deepening concerns over poverty and global inequality, the U.N. General Assembly in 2000 adopted the Millennium Development Declaration, putting forward a series of goals which were meant to be achieved by 2015. Core issues included improving global health, including reducing child mortality, improving maternal health and combating HIV/AIDS and other diseases.
Global health 2035: A world converging within a generationBlog Post
Unite For Sight recently hosted its inaugural Social Entrepreneurship Institute, a day-long event dedicated to social entrepreneurship across a variety of sectors, including health care. Speakers focused on several key best practices in social entrepreneurship, from beginning an organization to measuring impact and eventually scaling up.
Rethinking Impact and Redefining Success: Highlights from Unite for Sight’s Social Entrepreneurship InstituteBlog Post
Latin America has a long way to go in achieving financial inclusion, despite generally positive trends. Its residents often struggle with lack of savings and credit access, limited credit histories, and high interest rates - and they often avoid formal financial institutions. Accion Venture Lab describes some innovative business models and technologies that are addressing these issues.
The Best of 2013: What’s Game-Changing in Latin America?: How new financial technologies and business models are powering financial inclusion in the regionNews
Electronic health records (EHRs) have become standard practice throughout hospitals in North America, but in countries with fewer resources many front-line clinicians are still collecting data on paper, if they are collecting it at all. But now, surgeons from Vancouver, British Columbia, have developed a way for their peers at a Level I trauma center in South Africa to accurately collect and analyze trauma care data via an iPad app.
South African trauma center launches portable electronic trauma health record applicationNews
The problem of adverse selection in a credit market is used to describe a situation where the lender involved in a transaction cannot observe the type or quality of goods or the production of the borrower.
Opinion : The economics of microcredit
