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Geodata Technology Moving Into New Fields. Literally.
Geodata and ICT applications help farmers with precision farming, leading to increased yields and improved quality. This information has not yet been made available to financial institutions at a large scale, but it has the potential to increase access to finance for smallholder farmers. The Rabobank Foundation and NpM have launched a Board of Inspiration to help speed the process.
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Ted 2017: Frugal scientist offers malaria tools
Manu Prakash, a bio-engineer at Stanford University, designs cheap tools that can make a big difference in the poorest parts of the world.
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- Health Care
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Remittances to Developing Countries Decline for Second Consecutive Year
Remittances to developing countries fell for a second consecutive year in 2016, a trend not seen in three decades, says the latest edition of the Migration and Development Brief, released today during the World Bank’s Spring Meetings. The Bank estimates that officially recorded remittances to developing countries amounted to $429 billion in 2016, a decline of 2.4 percent over $440 billion in 2015. Global remittances, which include flows to high-income countries, contracted by 1.2 percent to $575 billion in 2016, from $582 billion in 2015.
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Six Promising Approaches for Scaling Health Care in Low-Resource Settings
Many health care interventions in low-resource settings are able to achieve initial impact, but the challenges are so great that few models have the potential to scale. However, Nakul Goswami, associate vice president of Intellecap Innovation Labs, has identified a few innovators showing promise. He explores why they work, and what other health care providers serving vulnerable communities can learn from their models.
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- Health Care
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Why Health Care Remains Poor in NGO-rich Haiti, and How Social Enterprises Can Fix It
Haiti is well known for its high concentration of aid-driven actors; no other country in the world has more NGOs per capita. And that's not a good thing. It's led to a chaotic marketplace which adversely impacts vulnerable people, according to Allison Howard-Berry of Care 2 Communities. She believes, however, that a social enterprise approach to health services in Haiti can work, in time, and describes how.
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India’s Note Ban Shrinks Microfinance Securitisation by 79% in Second Half of FY17
The impact of demonetisation on microfinance securitisation volumes has led to a slump of 79 per cent in the second half of FY17′. “The decline is to the tune of 79 per cent in the second half of the FY17′ at Rs 1,650 crore compared to Rs 8,000 crore in the six months of the previous year,” ICRA Head–Structured Finance, Vibhor Mittal told PTI.
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India: Hero Enterprises to invest $15.5m in Aavishkaar Bharat Fund
Hero Enterprises today announced a Rs 100 crore ($15.5 million) investment in impact investor Aavishkaar’s new fund, the Aavishkaar Bharat Fund. Aavishkaar Bharat Fund is the investor’s sixth fund, and is a SEBI registered Category II Alternative Investment Fund.
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- Investing
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Hooked on Sustainable Fish? Great – Now Let’s Help Fishers Who Net Them
Small-scale fishing operations play a critical role in food security and alleviating poverty, but face many challenges in developing countries. The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, which has helped build social businesses that train fishers and fish farmers to adopt sustainable practices, is among a growing group of stakeholders working toward a common goal of preserving our oceans and fisheries.
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- Environment
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