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June’s Most Popular, Most Shared Posts: Failure and Success in Microfinance Products, Wireless Currency and Bold Ideas in Global Health Lead the List
Winston Churchill said: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
NextBillion’s most-read blog post in June explained how failure has helped influence microfinance institutions better understand their customers’ needs.- Categories
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Latrines Made Easy: iDE helping find ways to produce, sell sanitary toilets to the rural poor
Diarrheal disease, increased vulnerability of women, humiliation, discomfort and general unpleasantness were facts of everyday life in much of rural Cambodia, due to a lack of decent latrines. In a period of two years, however, the businesses that iDE works with were able to sell 100,000 latrines, lending new hope to the effort to improve sanitation worldwide.
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