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Opinion: ‘Wanted: inclusive business’
With more severe poverty and inequality to begin with, worsening unemployment and lack of significant improvement in reducing poverty and inequality negate our otherwise impressive economic growth performance of late.
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Weekly Roundup – 4/25/14: Ringing the Bell on Social Enterprise, Remembering Rana Plaza
Each week the New York Stock Exchange invites a different group to ring the opening and closing bells to start and stop the day’s trading. On Monday, a new group did the honors: representatives from the U.S. National Advisory Board (NAB) to the Social Impact Investment Task Force. While the bell ringing is purely symbolic, the symbol is important nonetheless: Impact investing has moved from the fringe to the mainstream – or at least mainstream recognition.
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African Development Bank’s SME Program: Enhancing Inclusive Growth and Job Creation in Africa
The Board of Governors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) through its private sector window has approved a US $9 million line of credit (LOC) equivalent in Mozambique metica (MZN) to Moza Banco.
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Is the Future Role of Social Enterprise to Foster Compassionate Capitalism?
Our expert panel discuss the role of social enterprise in society, and the values of social business.
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- Impact Assessment
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West Africa: Breaking the Cycle of Youth Unemployment, Poverty
Youth unemployment and underemployment are among the main barriers to development in West Africa, say experts. Not only does the exclusion of young people from the labour force perpetuate generational cycles of poverty, it also breaks down social cohesion and can be associated with higher levels of crime and violence among idle youth.
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- Environment
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The Global Shortage of Health Workers
Health workers are essential for health care. Without health workers there are no health systems, yet there is a critical global shortage of them, and it is the poorest countries that are most affected.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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More jobs? Forget IT, look at healthcare instead
Finance and information technology may be the sectors everybody wants to be in. But when it comes to jobs creation in a growing economy like India, these sectors are turning out to be laggards as they are less labour-intensive. Health and construction sectors are the ones that have the potential to create more jobs.
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Impact Sourcing: How combining work and study ends the cycle of poverty for good
When we launched Digital Divide Data as a social enterprise in Cambodia in 2001, we quickly realized that providing work opportunities to disadvantaged high school graduates was not enough. In time, we saw that our work-study participants were able to access new professional opportunities and earn higher incomes. Twelve years later, we hope this impact can be scaled up by our organization and others to include many more people and communities around the world.
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- Education, Technology