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World Bank commits over $1 billion to Bangladesh
The fund would benefit almost 36 million people by improving the quality of primary education, building coastal communities’ resilience to natural disaster, and increasing the nutrition and cognitive development of children.
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- South Asia
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Myanmar anticipating a leap-frog in development through financial inclusion
An overview of the Financial Access Landscape and the usage of financial services by consumers in Myanmar.
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- South Asia
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Cash Versus Cows (Part 2): What’s more scalable – cash transfers or in-kind transfers?
Successfully catapulting ultra-poor households over the extreme poverty line is incredibly hard work, and requires philanthropic capital and grant-based approaches. In this second part of a two-part series, BRAC’s Rod Dubitsky and Sadna Samaranayake pose a seemingly simple question: Is it better to give a cow or cash to seed sustainable livelihoods for the poorest-of-the-poor?
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- Agriculture
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How Responsible Is Digital Finance?: 10 insights from CGAP’s Global Pulse Survey
How responsible is digital finance today? Though there’s broad agreement that this question deserves more attention, there are significant gaps in our knowledge of consumer risks with digital financial services globally. In response, CGAP conducted a survey among policy makers, financial service providers, consumer advocates and foundations involved in providing digital financial services. Here are the top ten survey insights.
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Three Keys to Unlocking Microinsurance’s Potential: The sector is growing – here’s how it can grow faster
Although microinsurance has grown in the shadow of flagship microfinance products like microcredit, it has slowly established itself as a dominant figure in inclusive finance. Yet it is still far from achieving its full potential, with challenges ranging from low coverage rates to lack of customer trust and limited cash-flows. Lisa Chassin of MicroSave outlines key practices that could boost the sector’s growth.
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Twitter Top Ten – 11/16/14: Our favorite tweets of the week
After a successful pilot period, our Twitter Top Ten makes its debut today as a permanent feature, with ten great tweets selected by NextBillion’s editorial staff. Thank you to everyone who’s provided feedback, encouragement and retweets to this feature - we’re glad the response has been so positive.
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- Health Care
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Weekly Roundup 11-15-14: New worries about India being the ‘pharmacy of the developing world’
India is known as the “pharmacy of the developing world." That’s why it was so scary to learn this week that tainted medicines might have been behind the botched government-run sterilizations there. We discuss that story, and other global health developments, in this Roundup.
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Trillion-Sensor Vision, Results Shared
UCSD researchers show latest efforts
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- Education, Environment