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Building Quality Products to Improve Low-Income Americans’ Financial Health: CFSI, Visa discussion conveys key challenges and opportunities for U.S. financial services providers
What is needed to improve the financial lives of low-income people in the U.S.? CFSI and Visa recently hosted a discussion on this question with notable financial services executives. They challenged the group to identify solutions for the 68 million financially underserved Americans. Kimberly Gartner, CFSI’s Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, describes the conversation that ensued.
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Working from the Inside Out : IDB’s inaugural conference on scaling corporate social enterprise explores building bridges
Last month the Inter-American Development Bank and its associate organizations organized in the first-ever Scaling Corporate Social Enterprise Conference in Santiago, Chile. Entrepreneurs and "intrapreneurs" shared experiences during the event, which allowed reflection over the obstacles each one finds when attempting to scale their social change models.
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Champions of the Toilet: The best way to solve open defecation, the authors say, is to focus on demand, not construction
Access to toilets doesn’t always fix the problem of open defecation; in fact, partial coverage generates insignificant health benefits. Therefore, to address India’s malnutrition and health crisis, it is important to promote widespread adoption of toilet use.
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