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Extending Insurance in Times of Crisis: How an Innovative Partnership is Serving Low-Income Micro-Business Owners in Indonesia
During a crisis like COVID-19, insurance can offer businesses in developed countries some degree of resilience. However, entrepreneurs in emerging markets often lack the access or awareness to take advantage of this protection. Carlie Joselowitz at N-Frnds discusses the challenges of delivering insurance to these small businesses – and an innovative partnership that aims to solve them.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Investing
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Viewpoint: Financial Inclusion Will Be Vital in a Post-Pandemic World
The world will never be the same as Covid-19 has created a springboard for the fourth industrial revolution
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- Coronavirus, Education, Finance
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Keeping Food on the Table During COVID-19: How Refugee Entrepreneurs Have Stayed Afloat – and Thrown a Lifeline to Others
The COVID-19 crisis has hit the food sector particularly hard, with far-reaching implications for both enterprises and the people they supply with food during the lockdown. Amy Gillett at the William Davidson Institute and Johanna Mendelson Forman at the Stimson Center discuss three key developments that are allowing food sector entrepreneurs to pivot to new business models that can help them weather these challenges.
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- Coronavirus, Entrepreneurship
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Digital Lending Post COVID: How Micro-Credit Holds the Key for Small Merchants, Customers to Bounce Back
Credit and Finance for MSMEs: Digital lending platforms with the principles of financial inclusivity will emerge as the heroes of the financial crisis.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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COVID-19 and the Pursuit of Financial Inclusion in Pakistan
When Pakistan implemented a national lockdown in mid-March, economic activity for the world’s fifth most populous country was brought to a halt. In a country where nearly 40% of people live in poverty and more than 24 million workers either earn daily or piece-rate wages or are self-employed, the ensuing economic crisis has hit the population hard.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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Tech for Good During COVID-19: Snorkels, Thank You Notes and Headspace
Everyone is living a different pandemic right now. Your relationship with shelter-in-place mandates and social distancing can look wildly different depending on your profession, age, health and, often, privilege. It’s why a week of monotony for some of us might mean a week of madness for others. The best we can do, as exhaustion and Zoom fatigue sets in, is try to be patient, kind and thoughtful.
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- Coronavirus
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- coronavirus, EdTech, health, pandemics, social business
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Pandemic-Proof Projects? Spring Lane Looks to Sustainable Waste
This impact investor is backing startups that promise to divert organic waste from landfills and turn it into clean energy and compost.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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Coronavirus Fallout to Slow Global Growth in Renewable Energy
The global growth of renewable energy will slow for the first time in 20 years due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, which will “hurt but not halt” the rise of clean energy.
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- Coronavirus, Energy, Environment
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