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Efficiency Is Noble: Study tour, forum focus on promising innovations in health care
IPIHD held its first study tour in India last October in order to bring health system leaders face to face with health care innovators. Three of those innovators, plus 27 more creative firms, will be represented at the third annual IPIHD Forum in Washington, D.C., on April 6.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Microfinance Can Be…: Month of Microfinance aims to “radically transform” microfinance, bring the focus back to clients
Microfinance was intended to be about clients, and designing products that would meet their financial needs. But in her research on MFIs, Laura Dick found that all too many seemed more interested in their repayment numbers or other institutional goals. The Month of Microfinance was launched, she says, to refocus the sector on the needs of the poor and radically transform it from the inside out.
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- Impact Assessment