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Fighting Poverty with Unconditional Cash
Rather than building schools and clinics, or donating solar lights and cows, is the best way to fight global poverty simply to give poor people money? That’s the question a group of smart economists are testing, and their answers could stand the multi-billion dollar aid industry on its head.
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Post-typhoon expansion of micro-insurance coverage for the poor sought in the Phillipines
The recent devastation caused by supertyphoon Yolanda in the Visayas underscored the importance of expanding coverage of micro-insurance to the marginalized communities in the country.
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A Goat Or An ATM?
Financial inclusion efforts in India have achieved much but remain hobbled by the lack of an effective impact assessment framework.
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Weekly Roundup – 11/30/13: Pope’s scathing review of capitalism puts BoP on front pages around the world
Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation this week put the BoP on the front page of every newspaper in the world. As most of us have heard by now, the pope came out on Tuesday with a scathing review of capitalism. Kyle Poplin discusses Francis’ views - and offers a more optimistic take - in this Weekly Roundup.
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HCBL Bank targetting beggars for financial inclusion
Probably the only bank catering to this segment, so far
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5 ways to fight resistance to sustainability
To avoid discouragement and burnout, we need to address this resistance proactively, yet patiently.
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A new focus for USAID: Ending extreme poverty
On Thursday, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah is set to give a speech at the Brookings Institution on the goal of ending extreme poverty, planned to put a bit more policy oomph behind U.S. President Barack Obama’s call in the State of the Union address earlier this year for America to join with its allies to end $1.25 poverty in two decades.
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Microcredit has been a disaster for the poorest in South Africa
The finance model was supposed to help the country's disenfranchised, but has just pushed them further into debt
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