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What the inaugural Global Trends in Giving Report tells us about donors worldwide
Nonprofit Tech for Good has published its inaugural 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report, which aims to provide a better understanding of donors worldwide and their giving habits and preferences.
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- Investing
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This aid agency is using chatbots to beat world hunger
WFP first began to assess food needs using text messages and interactive voice response systems in Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2014, with help from global information and audience measurement company Nielsen. This year, they expanded to using chatbots on the Facebook messenger platform. Approximately 170 million Africans use Facebook, mostly on their phones.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New act in Thailand to give social enterprises a big boost
Social Enterprises Act will propose that the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) set a target for the rest of this year and through 2018 to boost the number of social enterprises in the country.
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- Uncategorized
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- Asia Pacific
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Are impact investors missing a trick by overlooking local communities?
For Durreen Shahnaz, an investment banker turned social entrepreneur from Bangladesh, impact investing seeks to "connect the Wall Streets of the world with the backstreets of underserved communities". But how realistic is this?
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Press Release: IFC, Convergence Join to Support Blended Finance for Health and Education Investment
Convergence and IFC will together fund the platform design, including product offering, with potential for raising as much as USD 500 million for investment and advisory support.
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- North America
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Entrepreneurship and Millennials Are Thriving in Emerging Markets
Plenty of ink has been spilled on the root causes behind this troubling phenomenon, from high student debt to the rising costs of healthcare. Yet there is one part of the world where entrepreneurship is alive and well: emerging markets.
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Rise of pan-African banking could raise between $490-$950bn in additional credit for sub-Saharan Africa
To date, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)’s financial sector remains relatively small and underdeveloped. However, African banks have started to expand their footprint across Sub- Saharan Africa. The number of cross border subsidiaries of African banks has almost tripled since 2002 and there are now ten pan-African banks (PABs) with a presence in at least ten SSA countries, and one with a presence in over 30 SSA countries.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The gap between India’s richer and poorer states is widening
East Asia’s growth pattern has for decades been likened to a skein of geese, from Japan at the vanguard to laggards such as Myanmar at the rear. The same pattern can often be seen within big countries. Over the past decade, for example, China’s poorer provinces have grown faster than their wealthier peers. India is different. Far from converging, its states are getting ever more unequal. A recent shake-up in the tax system might even make matters worse.
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- Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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