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Banking on mobile phones holds promise, provided regulators are willing to be flexible The idea that mobile phones bring economic benefits is now widely accepted. In places with bad roads, few trains and parlous land lines, they substitute for travel, allow price data to be distributed more quickly and easily, enable traders to reach wider markets and generally ease the business of doing business. Leonard Waverman of the London B...
A bank in every pocket?Blog Post
Guest blogger Mareike Hussels is Latin America Manager for New Ventures. Prior to joining WRI, Mareike worked with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), where she was responsible for outreach to financial institutions in Latin America. Mareike pursued her...
Are We Making a Difference? Measuring the Social and Environmental Impacts of Small and Medium EnteBlog Post
The Center for Global Development (CGD), an independent, non-partisan, non-profit policy research organization in Washington, DC seeks a part time or full time intern to provide administrative and research support to CGD?s executive office. The Intern will support the executive office in a...
Internship: Center for Global DevelopmentNews
(via IADB news) Government intervention in microfinance could bring funds and services to millions of poor people and improve the institutional framework of the industry?at the same time, it could deliver a knockout punch to private MFIs. By Peter Bate It would appear that the rosy wave that swept several Latin American countries in the 2006 elections is about to hit microfinance in the regi...
Government intervention in microfinance: Threat or Opportunity?News
Several private equity (PE) groups are creating funds exclusively for investing in clean technology in India, adding momentum to a sector where no funds currently exist. These groups include the Nevada-based Arvco Capital Research Llc. , Washington, DC-based ...
PE groups ready clean tech fundsBlog Post
From The Times of India:When Bradley Montgomery relocated to Bangalore from California, his primary concern as a single parent was to hire a domestic hand not just to cook and clean, but also to tend to his son Aaron (11). His mother chanced upon babajob.com and within days, Montgomery hired...
Babajob: Monster.com Meets Facebook Meets BoPNews
That India?s primary healthcare is in dire straits is well known. While the affluent sections are being overwhelmed with the choice of superspeciality service, there is a widely held belief that there is no money to be made in providing healthcare to the bottom of the pyramid. Some entrepreneurs are challenging this as a myth and trying to improve the health of healthcare in India. Ziqitza Health Care Services, the company behind the 1298...
Health and care for allNews
Some of the world’s leading information technology corporations are in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, for what organizers are calling a historic summit focusing on Africa’s growing IT sector. Representatives of tech giants are calling for business solutions to alleviate poverty. Noel King has this report from Kigali. Industry leaders say chronic poverty in Africa will be alleviated by investment in information technology, rather...
Technology Giants Push to Alleviate African Poverty
