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Weekly Roundup: Stand with Haiti
Even for a blog that concerns itself with the everyday struggles of people in often desperate poverty, the situation in Port-au-Prince makes summarizing this week’s new research reports and events seem trivial. So: how to connect immediate humanitarian needs with the inclusive development Haiti has needed for so long?
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Gates Foundation Supports Savings Accounts for the Poor
The Gates Foundation is at it again. On Wednesday, it announced $38 million dollars in funding to support programming that will give the poor safe, effective ways to house their savings. Six grants will go to 18 MFIs that offer microcredit but will "make savings accounts available to an initial 11 million poor people over five years."
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