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OPINION: For-profit health care: Eliminate, tolerate or stimulate?
Search online for the role of for-profit organizations in health care and you’ll find millions of results, including an abundance of studies, conferences and discussions among providers, advocates and various other actors. It’s an important debate about a complex issue — one that remains largely unresolved in countries around the globe.
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- Health Care
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Red Flags: Over-indebtedness is the yang to microcredit’s yin
While working to understand the experiences of clients suffering from severe over-indebtedness in the U.S., EA Consultants began to consider patterns that have emerged in lesser-developed countries. Barbara Magnoni, EA Consultants’ president, discusses their research and its implications for microfinance.
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- Education
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Development Finance Institutions Come of Age
In a world where private enterprise drives jobs and prosperity, DFIs expand the frontiers of what is viewed as a profitable investment opportunity around the world.
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- Impact Assessment
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Funding to Reach the Tipping Point: Doug Balfour, CEO of Geneva Global, on how to spark collaboration that amplifies social impact
Geneva Global funds social impact projects worldwide, and it has fine-tuned the way it works with local community-based organizations to maximize its philanthropic bang for the buck. In part 7 of our Impact Investing Insights series, its CEO Doug Balfour explains how the company aims to create a virtuous cycle through its grants, leading to sustainable, long-term social change.
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- Uncategorized
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Direct-to-Farmer Finance: Business models for serving the hardest-to-reach smallholders
An estimated 90 percent of smallholder farmers lack strong relationships with buyers, limiting their access to finance, inputs, training and other support. And it’s difficult for financial providers to reach them. That’s why direct-to-farmer finance is so important, says Dalberg’s Laura Goldman. She discusses a new briefing on the approach from the Initiative for Smallholder Finance.
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- Agriculture, Education
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OPINION: How Pay-for-Success Funding Might Help Low-Income Students
Policy makers, college administrators, and parents are all searching for ways to help needy students graduate. But one option is missing from the debate: pay-for-success financing.
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- Education
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Training Africa’s ‘Micropreneurs’: Why effective microfinance requires more than just loans
In supporting female micropreneurs, microfinance is a vital poverty alleviation tool in Malawi, says the MicroLoan Foundation’s Paul Abbott. But for these women, microloans are only as effective as the training and mentorship that accompany them. Abbott explains how the foundation has designed tailored modules to teach clients everything from leadership to how to calculate cost, revenue and profit.
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- Education
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Philanthropic capital should be invested more strategically for poverty alleviation: Country Director, Acumen Pakistan
Farrukh H Khan is the Country Director & CEO of Acumen Pakistan and one of the leading independent business and financial advisors in the country.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- South Asia