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The Future of the Graduation Approach: Taking a Proven Anti-Poverty Measure to Scale
How can the "graduation" approach to fighting extreme poverty achieve a scale commensurate with extreme poverty itself? Increasingly, the answer is to embed graduation within government-run social protection programs that already operate at massive scale. MetLife Foundation's Krishna Thacker explores why the approach works, and how innovative organizations are taking it to the next level.
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- Education
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Field of View: How a Chilli Cash Crop Helps Subsistence Farmers Shape Their Future
During a three-year process designed to assess the impact of growing a chilli cash crop on small farmers living in southern Africa, it was discovered that when a family earned just $500 more of net income per year, the money materially impacted at least two categories of their basic human needs. But the most profound impact, writes Tanner Methvin, was that of self-determination.
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- Agriculture
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Will tech solve Britain’s heartbreaking ‘poverty premium’?
Today business accelerator Wayra, backed by O2’s parent company Telefonica, is launching a business accelerator to tackle the poverty premium.
Called Fair By Design, Wayra will offer around £70,000 in cash and services in seven small digital businesses aiming to improve access to affordable services.- Categories
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Yes, microlending reduces extreme poverty
Currently, 836 million people – or 12% of the world’s population – experience extreme poverty, living off less than US$1.25 a day. Using data from 106 developing countries from between 1998 and 2013 to examine the efficacy of microlending as a poverty-reduction tool, I found that just a 10% increase in the gross microfinance loan portfolio per client could cut this number by 1.26%.
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- Investing
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Building Tools to Measure How, and How Much, Consumers Benefit from Financial Inclusion
It's easy to affirm that financial inclusion is increasing. It's more difficult – because of a lack of reliable and actionable tools – to determine how adults derive value from financial inclusion. To address that need, insight2impact recently developed and tested a needs measurement framework concept that takes users’ actual usage patterns into consideration.
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Impact investors face US$39bn opportunity in education microfinance
“Education offers extraordinary social returns in the sense that a decent schooling remains the best opportunity for most to escape poverty,” said Nathan Byrd who heads the Opportunity EduFinance program.
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- South Asia
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F.B. Heron Foundation President Clara Miller to Step Down
Miller, who has served as director and president of Heron since 2010, will assume the role of president emerita and will continue to write, speak, and undertake research aimed at advancing the foundation's mission.
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- Investing
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It’s Time to Match Tools with Our Understanding of Consumers and Financial Inclusion
Established in 2015 as a resource centre to help find new ways to use data to assist the financial inclusion community, insight2impact recently released its "i2i Measurement Framework Note series." The document introduces a new theory and set of measurement frameworks designed to help stakeholders achieve their good intentions and is underpinned by three key insights.
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