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The HBS-Accion Program on Strategic Leadership in Inclusive Finance is Accepting Applications
The 2015 Harvard Business School – Accion Program on Strategic Leadership in Inclusive Finance is now accepting applications for what will be another exceptional week of learning and exchange among world leaders in financial inclusion. The program will take place April 6-11, 2015 at the HBS campus in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Strange Bedfellows: A Grameen Foundation initiative aims to bring telcos and banks together to deliver mobile financial services to rural Uganda
In many countries in the developing world, telcos and banks have clashed as they compete for the growing mobile finance market. But in Uganda, Grameen Foundation’s Mobile Financial Services Accelerator is promoting a different approach, facilitating collaboration between the two sectors in an effort to bring mobile financial services to rural communities. We spoke with Henry Maloba, who leads the initiative, in this two-part Q&A.
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Firms, Aid Groups Help Filipinos Borrow From Banks Instead of Sharks
Housewife Jenny Orquiza, whose home was damaged by super typhoon Haiyan, did not imagine that the Philippines' biggest natural disaster would lead to her getting something she never had - a bank account.
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MasterCard Teams With Gates Foundation to Expand Digital Financial Services in East Africa
MasterCard has unveiled the launch of MasterCard Labs for Financial Inclusion, a new initiative seeking to impact more than 100 million people globally by developing practical and cost-effective financial tools that expand access and help build stable futures over the long term.
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PRESS RELEASE: Roundtable on Aging and Financial Inclusion in Latin America
Over 40 leaders from across Latin America, including the banking, microfinance, academic, and aging advocacy sectors, joined together in Bogota, Colombia for a roundtable on the topic of Aging and Financial Inclusion. This meeting focused specifically on aging demographics in Latin America and the increasing need for access to quality financial services—including pensions, savings, insurance, loans, and payments.
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‘Aha Moments’ in the Business Model Process: FIELD at the Aspen Institute explores how to take pilot programs to products
If you work at a nonprofit, you probably know this story: You conduct a pilot program. The results are strong. The pilot funding ends. Then you scramble to find funding to keep the program going. How can you write a happy ending to this story? FIELD at the Aspen Institute explored this question during the last phase of their Asset Building through Credit Pilot. Joyce Klein and Luz Gomez discuss what they found.
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Narayana Health Opens Hi-Tech Hospital in the Caribbean
Famed heart surgeon Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty, Mother Teresa's personal physician and founder of Narayana Health — an Indian hospital network that is internationally regarded as one of the world's lowest-cost, highest-quality healthcare providers — is bringing his mission of providing affordable, accessible healthcare to America.
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- Latin America
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Only 48% of Indian Adults Have Access to Bank Accounts
Only 48 per cent of Indian adults have bank accounts and nearly half of them lie dormant, says a report. According to a nation-wide survey on financial behaviour, India has the highest account dormancy rate even more than countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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- South Asia