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Corporate social responsibility and India Inc: IT leads, finance lags
Reporting on corporate social responsibility has been undertaken by almost three quarters (73 percent) of large Indian companies, led by the IT sector, shows a new survey by KPMG.
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- Education
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- South Asia
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Doctors Without Borders Pioneers Opening Up Access to Humanitarian Data
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is pioneering an open-access approach within the humanitarian sector in the hope that other medical aid organisations will follow suit.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Smartphone uptake boosts mobile banking
The growing demand for smartphones, mass adoption of cashless services and hotspot services that provide free Wi-fi to customers has resulted in the expansion of the mobile wallet industry, according to a new report.
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- Education, Technology
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Weekly Roundup: Honoring Greg Dees
Real innovators disassemble, tinker, and then reassemble the known parts of a thing - any thing - to create something new and lasting. That’s what J. Gregory Dees did in defining social entrepreneurship 16 years ago in his paper “The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship.” Dees passed away last month, leaving a legacy for the academic study of social entrepreneurship.
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What’s Holding Back China’s Mobile-Money Market?
China further solidified its position as a market that could greatly impact payments in 2013
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- Education
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- Asia Pacific
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The Best of 2013: NextThought Monday – Opening the Curtain on the New 2.0 Era of Impact Investing
Impact investing has not been growing as quickly as many practitioners might have hoped, and knowledge of what does and does not work remains closely held. But in what they bill as "an unprecedented exercise in disclosure," Pacific Community Ventures and its partners are sharing the inner workings of 12 high-performing funds, hoping to spark a new era in impact investing.
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- impact investing, research
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Small lifestyle changes ‘lower type 2 diabetes risk’
Modest lifestyle changes in diet and activity by South Asian families improve their chance of losing weight to lower their risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a study.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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The Best of 2013: Measure for Measure: Eight tips to optimize your data collection and maximize your impact
So, you want to learn more about your impact, or about the preferences of your customers at the BoP. It’s time for you to run a household-level survey. But how do you get started? Part 2 of our Measure for Measure series lays out eight things to keep in mind when developing survey content and processes for impact assessment.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- research