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Micro-lender’s Own Probe Links It to 200 Suicides
First they were stripped of their utensils, furniture, mobile phones, televisions, ration cards and heirloom gold jewelry. Then, some of them drank pesticide. One woman threw herself in a pond. Another jumped into a well with her children.
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- South Asia
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Kenya: Total’s Solar Kits Target Poor Households
Total Kenya is banking on portable solar kits for lighting and charging of mobile phones to break into the Kenyan renewable energy market.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The EzyStove Improves On Man’s Greatest Invention, Fire
Can designers build a better fire? For developing countries, they had to.
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The State and Future of Impact Investing
In a recent interview with Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund, we discussed his new book about the impact investing sector, emerging trends and ideas in this space, challenges and opportunities moving forward, what the world would look like if the potential of impact investing were to be realized, and advice to traditional investors interested in becoming an impact investor.
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Social Enterprising: DR Congo’s Untapped Resource?
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the world of Social Entrepreneurship may seem strange bedfellows. One is constantly in the media for its good, the other for bad. One demonstrates economic empowerment, the other an absence thereof. But that’s not what I found on a recent trip there.
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- Education
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Alliance Pushes Social Entrepreneurship Bill
An alliance of farmers, workers, community enterprises, business associations and fair trade groups is pushing for the approval of a measure designed to institutionalize social entrepreneurship (SE) nationwide.
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- Asia Pacific
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The Quiet Revolution in Social Impact
There are currently 30 million African migrants who have left their home countries to find work elsewhere. They support more than 300 million people in their home countries, remitting essential food and goods, and in aggregate represent more than $10b in annual economic activity. This is an economy without an infrastructure, however, relying on informal channels and bribes to function.South African entrepreneur Suzana Moreira is working to change that. Her startup moWozauses SMS to help African migrants order, pay for, and select a place for parcel pickup.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Community Workers Help to Bridge Treatment Gap in Mental Health
Training lay people can play a crucial role in helping to deliver effective care for depression and anxiety in resource-poor, primary healthcare settings
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- Health Care
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- South Asia