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The Olympics: Social Business Opportunity – or Expensive Distraction?
NB editor James Militzer can't stand the Olympics and he's found new reasons to especially hate this year's Games. Meanwhile, fellow editor Kyle Poplin loves the Olympics, thinks they're still relevant and that they can be used to solve global problems. Read their point-counterpoint and see where you come down on the spectrum.
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- Social Enterprise
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Facebook lures Africa with free internet – but what is the hidden cost?
Facebook has signed up almost half the countries in Africa – a combined population of 635 million – to its free internet service in a controversial move to corner the market in one of the world’s biggest mobile data growth regions.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In Search of the Best Health Care Innovators in the World
The Innovations in Healthcare network currently includes 67 innovators operating in 49 countries and serving more than 7 million people. They're looking for more creative organizations to join the network, based on three main criteria: innovative approach, readiness to scale and sustainability. The deadline for nominations is Sept. 16.
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- Health Care
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Press Release: SAJIDA Foundation partners with bKash to increase access to financial services for women using digital technology
SAJIDA Foundation, a non-governmental organization (NGO) providing microfinance services to poor and low income people in Bangladesh, and bKash Limited, a leading Mobile Financial Service (MFS) provider in the world, launched a new MFS-based microfinance initiative.
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- South Asia
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Zimbabwe to formalize microinsurance firms
ZIMBABWE is working on a framework to regulate and formalise operations of microinsurance firms targeting low income earners, the Insurance and Pensions Commission said. Microinsurance has been identified as a critical instrument for delivering effective and efficient insurance services and products as well as promoting financial inclusion.
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OPINION: Investors in Africa are so focused on the poor that they are ignoring the middle class
African businesses that don’t focus on helping the poorest are being ignored by investors, according to Agosta Liko, a Kenyan entrepreneur and founder of PesaPal, a payments system for online and mobile money.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Impact Investing Conference at the Vatican: New Perspectives From Both Sides
The Second Vatican Conference on Impact Investing brought together leaders from the Catholic Church and impact investment communities to discuss the role of impact investing for the poor. The two groups found strong overlap not only in their shared goals of helping the poor, but also in the ways that they measure social impact.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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10 new VC investors who are upbeat on Indian start-ups
The venture capital gold rush to India that began with Tiger Global Management’s purchase of a slice of Flipkart in 2010 ebbed five years later, ending in cash crunch, valuation cuts and many shutdowns in India’s start-up landscape.
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- South Asia