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Community-based Health Care Delivery in China: Le-Nest’s membership fee model could translate to low-income populations
Le-Nest is addressing the gap in preventive health care and health management by bringing appropriate care and skills to its patients through existing community networks in Shanghai. It’s a model that could potentially be translated to lower-income populations.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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Trouble Brewing in Microfinance?: Peru and Mexico’s microcredit sectors appear to be in danger of collapsing – and the market-driven model is to blame
In spite of its well-publicized struggles, the market-driven microcredit model remains a revered concept, linked to the belief that free markets and business solutions are the best solutions to poverty. But according to Milford Bateman, flaws in the market-driven model itself are responsible for grave challenges facing Peru and Mexico’s celebrated microcredit sectors.
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- Impact Assessment