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The Global Findex Database Shows We Can’t Meet the SDGs Without Financial Inclusion
For nearly a decade, Leora Klapper has led the World Bank’s Global Findex database – a survey of how people in more than 150 countries access and use financial services. While academic studies continue to show how financial inclusion underpins and enables social progress, to create a financially inclusive world we need to continually measure the scope and depth of the problem, Klapper argues. That means asking: Who still needs accounts? Who has accounts, but doesn’t use them? And what more can we do to help?
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- Finance
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Viewpoint: Why impact investing can help solve the world’s problems
A lack of funding is impeding progress on the sustainable development goals, but private banks plug the gap.
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- Investing
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Why the Social Impact Sector Needs a ‘Bizarro Davos’: A Modest Proposal That Nobody Will Like
It’s that time of year again: Time to talk about the true meaning of Davos. But among all the hot takes and well-earned snark at the expense of insufferable elites, it’s worth asking if the rest of us are so different. Even those of us who work in the social impact sector don’t seem to object to high-brow conferences, and few regular folks seem willing to make the kinds of sacrifices that may be necessary to tackle the generational challenges we face. NextBillion editor James Militzer discusses this dynamic, and makes a sure-to-be-unpopular proposal.
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- Environment, Social Enterprise
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Viewpoint: Why toilets should be on the agenda at Davos
As the world’s cities grow, and the extreme weather patterns that accompany climate change take greater hold, innovation in sanitation presents more than great opportunity and must not be relegated to the corporate social responsibility team.
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- WASH
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Viewpoint: How the digital finance revolution can drive sustainable development
A new task force convened by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will consider how these two topics might best intersect: how the digital revolution in financing could be shaped not only to minimise potential harms, but in ways that could help advance the SDGs’ inspiring vision.
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- Finance
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Press release: Credit Suisse joins with CGAP on the application of digital finance to alleviate poverty
Credit Suisse, one of the world's leading financial services providers, is partnering with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) to support its work in building inclusive and responsible financial systems that help people move out of poverty, protect their economic gains and advance the broader global development agenda.
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- Finance
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Viewpoint: Investors Need More and Better Data on Sustainability
Measurable results are central to advance sustainable finance – the kind that rewards companies being environmentally or socially responsible.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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How the African diaspora can help the continent achieve the SDGs
With a progressive awareness of the need for a sustainable African development agenda driven by Africans, the African diaspora could provide the other half of the equation needed to turn the SDGs from aspiration to concrete reality.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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