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Ramadorai new chairman of NSDC
S. Ramadorai took over the post from M.V. Subbiah, who was heading NSDC since 2008.
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What is the best way of innovating for social change?
There are many different ways – organisationally speaking – that you can save the world.
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The Social Progress Index:: A new language for development, or 21st century Esperanto?
Therespected Harvard professor Michael Porter, father of the catchphrase "shared value," has come up with the Social Progress Index. His guiding principle: Instead of making any attempt to balance financial metrics, such as income, against social outcomes, such as clean water, SPI simply measures the outcomes.
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Fighting poverty: Getting value for money from foreign aid
When a country is full of food, and exporting it, there can be no famine,” smoulders Hector Malone in George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman.
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Banishing poverty through banking
Access to financial services could pull millions of people out of poverty, so where does microfinance fit in?
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SJF Ventures Raises $90MM Third Fund, Tripling Size of Previous Fund
SJF Ventures conducted the final closing on its third fund with more than $90MM in capital commitments, tripling the size of the previous $28MM second fund.
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IFC, Others Invest $20m In Ghanaian Microfinance Bank
The IFC, the German Investment and Development Corporation (DEG), and the African Capitalisation Fund (ACF) have together invested about GH¢46 million ($20 million) into one of Ghana’s leading microfinance banks, UT Bank.
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World Bank: Africa’s economic growth to outpace average
Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa should significantly outpace the global average over the next three years, according to the World Bank.
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