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The UBI Debate: What We Know – and Don’t Know – About Universal Basic Income
Policymakers from Nairobi to Silicon Valley have lately been considering the same approach to reducing poverty: universal basic income (UBI). Evidence from ongoing randomized evaluations will be key to understanding the impact of UBI, and how this disruptive concept might fit into a broader portfolio of social policies. In the meantime, there is much we already know from impact evaluations of related interventions that can help make sense of the debate. Alison Fahey at J-PAL provides an overview.
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- Financial Inclusion
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OPINION: Social Entrepreneurship’s All-American Mind Trap
The notion of social entrepreneurship has become an arousing and intoxicating subject that has turned the social entrepreneurship discourse into a grand narrative.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- North America
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INTERVIEW: How we contribute to tackling poverty, inequality in Nigeria, globally – President, Ford Foundation
In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES’ Editor-in-Chief, Musikilu Mojeed, and business correspondent, Oladeinde Olawoyin, he speaks on poverty reduction, inequality, impact assessment, a $12.5 billion endowment Nigeria may benefit from and other social interventions put in place by the Ford Foundation.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Runaway Trains of Thought: How Boosting Cognitive Bandwidth Can Fight Poverty
Cognitive bandwidth allows humans to reason, focus and resist impulses – and unfortunately, we have only a limited amount of it. Everyone struggles to make decisions when they run low on cognitive bandwidth, but the added stress of poverty consumes more of it. Creating simple ways to free this bandwidth, whether through money or time, can elevate helpful anti-poverty programs into transformative ones, according to ideas42.
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- Financial Inclusion, Health Care
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Entrepreneurship is a Skill, Not a Talent: The Power of the Group-Based Graduation Model
Village Enterprise implements a cost-effective, group-based, one-year graduation program for rural Africans who live on less than $1.90 per day. The organization believes that entrepreneurship is not just for the naturally business-minded, it's a skill like leadership or teamwork that can be fostered and learned. Its aim, therefore, is to unlock the potential of those who are entrepreneurs by nature and instill the skills of entrepreneurship in those who are not.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Boosting Gender Equality Through Entrepreneurship: A Q&A with Pro Mujer CEO Maria Cavalcanti
Maria Cavalcanti is president and CEO of Pro Mujer, one of the largest women’s development organizations in Latin America. In this Q&A, she discusses the changing nature of women entrepreneurship, the organization's embrace of technology and for-profit structures, and her ambitious plans to make Pro Mujer "a one-stop shop for empowerment for women in the region."
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- Entrepreneurship, Financial Inclusion, Health Care
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Can Tourism Alleviate Global Poverty?
International tourism may be booming but the benefits don’t always reach the local populations due to leakage. Griffith University’s Susanne Becken explains what leakage is and how to turn the situation around.
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- Environment
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Alibaba executive chairman creates $10M African youth entrepreneur fund
Alibaba Group Executive Chairman Jack Ma launched a $10 million African Young Entrepreneurs Fund at the YouthConnekt Africa Summit. The fund is expected to be operational this year.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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