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Of Course Research Has Impact. Here’s how.
Such impact is more often drip, drip than earth shattering light bulb moment.
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New Report Details How Legacy Financial Institutions Are Deepening Financial Inclusion Through Fintech Partnerships
The report, "How Financial Institutions and Fintechs Are Partnering for Inclusion: Lessons from the Frontlines" is based on 24 in-depth interviews with firms and experts from around the world, and highlights 14 partnerships in as many countries.
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Building a Financially Sustainable Social Enterprise in Emerging Markets
Six lessons on achieving financial independence in a resource-constrained era.
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Ford Foundation, ACA convene push for impact investing in Nigeria
Impact investing models have been deployed in developing and emerging economies to solve problems in various sectors, such as sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and microfinance. It has also been used to address such issues as affordable and accessible housing, healthcare, and education.
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UNCTAD adviser, Alibaba’s Jack Ma, launches African Young Entrepreneurs Fund
Mr. Ma said that he would also work with UNCTAD help bring 200 budding African businesspeople to his homeland China to learn from Alibaba hands on.
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Identifying the most promising ventures, the Village Capital way
Rather than getting entrepreneurs to make a pitch before it for funding and then going through an elaborate due diligence process, Village Capital finds these entrepreneurs and trains them before investing in their ventures. It runs an accelerator programme for 10-12 entrepreneurs and uses a peer-selection method to decide the ventures it will invest seed capital in.
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The Side Effect Of That New Malaria Drug? American Jobs
The researchers found that between 2007 and 2015, the U.S. government invested $14 billion in global health research and development. And that created 200,000 new American jobs and returned $33 billion to the U.S. economy.
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How open data can help the Global South, from disaster relief to voter turnout
In Africa, Latin America, Asia and beyond, hopes are high that access to data can help developing economies by increasing transparency, fostering sustainable development, building climate resiliency and the like.
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