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Latin America Impact Economy Innovations Fund, An Open Invitation for Proposals: Fundación Avina, Avina Americas, the Omidyar Network and the Rockefeller Foundation are teaming up
Recently, Fundación Avina, Avina Americas, the Omidyar Network and the Rockefeller Foundation joined forces to create the Latin America Impact Economy Innovations Fund. This new fund seeks to support collective actions and a regional market to boost market solutions to achieve social and philanthropic goals, actions to combat poverty and the promotion of the environment. The fund invites all organizations that wish to develop the impact economy to present proposals that seek to add to the growth of the impact investing and inclusive business industry.
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Micro Benefits to be Recognized at the G20 Summit for Improving the Livelihoods of China’s Factory Workers
SUZHOU, China, Oct 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- In collaboration with the G20 Mexico Summit, Ashoka Changemakers(R) has named Micro Benefits one of five finalists in a worldwide social impact competition - the G2012 Mexico Financial Inclusion Challenge: Innovative Solutions for Unlocking Access. More than half the world's population - some 2.7 billion adults - lack access to basic financial services such as affordable credit, savings and insurance products.
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N220bn MFBs’ fund to drive development, financial inclusion
The Federal Government is set to launch a N220bn fund to enable Nigerian businesses and citizens that lack access to traditional financial services access such services at a much lower cost.The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, said this at a press conference on the National Financial Inclusion Strategy in Abuja on Wednesday.
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P Chidambaram urges banks to lend more to the poor
By saying banks need to lend more to the poor, Union finance minister P Chidambaram is on the right track. There is no denying that India continues to be a significantly under-banked country. Around 41% of the population is unbanked, with the figure touching as high as 61% in rural areas.
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Why Should Banks Reach Out to Social Entrepreneurs? : That question will be front and center at the world’s largest banking conference
On Oct. 30, in Osaka, 8,000 bankers will convene for the world’s largest banking conference, SIBOS, and for the first time enter into a dialogue with social entrepreneurs about the future of their industry – based on concrete ideas for new business with social impact.
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Science and Technology: The Next Frontier of Inclusive Business
Latin America and the world have already demonstrated that inclusive businesses not only exist, but are capable of growing accelerated and profitably. What is missing is showing rates of return that exceed that of the market to attract investors and the traditional actors of economic and entrepreneurial development. Science and technology might be the solution.
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The World We Want: Business development will play a much larger role in the future Millennium Development Goals
As we near 2015, the world needs to remain focused on securing as much progress as possible on the current set of Millennium Development Goals. UNDP joined forces with Business Fights Poverty, the Business Call to Action, the Overseas Development Institute and the UN Global Compact to explore, from a business perspective, what a future development framework might look like.
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What’s Wrong with ‘Banking the Unbanked’?: Measuring active bank accounts is a better metric for financial inclusion
While the possession of a bank account may be a step toward financial inclusion, it should not be confused with genuine inclusion. A bank account puts people on a path toward financial inclusion, we cannot be at all certain that they are proceeding down the path.
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