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Making it Rain: The forecast on weather index insurance
A host of risks, including too much or too little rain, keeps farmers from adopting inputs and practices that may yield more profitable crops. But weather index insurance could be the hedge many farmers need. The Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative reviewed several randomized control trials about how to make insurance a more attractive option for farmers.
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- Agriculture
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Financial Products are Available – Why Aren’t the Poor Using Them?: IPA is seeking research partners to help answer that question
Take-up of mobile financial products remains low, and usage rates are often disappointing. That's why Innovations for Poverty Action is facilitating research to test solutions to this problem. We're republishing this post, which originally ran last July, since IPA is re-opening its fund for research proposals. The new deadline for Expressions of Interest applications is April 29, 2016.
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- Education
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NexThought Monday: Don’t Brag That You’re More Selective than Harvard and Other Lessons in Startup Acceleration
Investors, foundations and governments all want to use their funding dollars most efficiently, but it takes time and sustained effort to gather useful data. Village Capital recently released a new report with Social Enterprise @ Goizueta that begins to shed light on an answer. Part of the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative (GALI), the study is the most ambitious effort to date to track what’s working in accelerators.
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- Investing
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Why Partnerships Are Crucial for Pushing Vaccine R&D Forward
Students in the Philippines began receiving doses of the world’s first dengue vaccine this week, as the country begins a public immunization program to inoculate 1 million children in 6,000 schools across the island nation.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Scientists Say It’s Time To End ‘Parachute Research’
Critics call them "parachute researchers": Scientists from wealthy nations who swoop in when a puzzling disease breaks out in a developing country. They collect specimens, then head straight back home to analyze them. They don't coordinate with people fighting the epidemic on the ground — don't even share their discoveries for months, if ever.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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When People Say They ‘Lack the Money to be Banked’ – Here’s What They Mean
Between 2014-2015, Bankable Frontier Associates worked with other partners to collect baseline data on access to financial services in three member countries: Fiji, Samoa and the Solomon Islands. In these surveys, not having enough money also emerged, unsurprisingly, as the number one reason for not having a bank account among unbanked Pacific Islanders. But here's what we found when we dug a bit deeper.
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Pfizer Joins Human Vaccines Project
Pfizer said today it will join the Human Vaccines Project, a public–private consortium focused on speeding up development of vaccines and immunotherapies against major infectious diseases and cancers by decoding the human immune system.
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- Health Care
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Study: Micro-financing Impoverished Communities ‘Can Lead to Increased Debt Levels and Suicide’
Micro-financing "led to a higher level of debt among already impoverished communities" in the developing world, instead of kickstarting jobs, according to new study. After months of research in Bangladesh, Dr Laurel Jackson has warned that the practice of providing small loans to poor families is dramatically increasing stress and debt levels.
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