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NexThought Monday – Creators, Not Just Consumers: Facebook and other global players are bringing transformative digital technology to the BoP – but will local economies benefit?
A budding tech industry can help transform emerging markets, says Chris Locke. But as global powerhouses like Facebook and Google focus on the BoP, will they build local jobs and economies, or act like digital extractive industries, mining personal data and using it to create value elsewhere?
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- Impact Assessment, Technology, Telecommunications
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A qualified success for the Peterborough prison social impact bond
Not everyone is confident about the prospects for replicating what might prove to be a one-off experiment, says Stephen Cook
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- Impact Assessment
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The remarkable impact of secondary education on women’s health
For the first time, there is strong evidence to support the claim that girls education is a great investment. But it goes further than that. Secondary education might be the best way to improve the health of both mothers and their children.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- public health, research
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In a First Test for Social Impact Bonds, Investors Miss the Mark for Payout
Investors in a pioneering social impact bond project in the U.K. will have to wait another two years for a return on their gamble on good.
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- Impact Assessment
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Watch the Replay of our Google Hangout with Margot Kane: A Q&A with Calvert Foundation’s VP of Strategic Initiatives
Margot Kane is VP of Strategic Initiatives at Calvert Foundation. She manages strategy development, fundraising and implementation of new investment initiatives and portfolios that target key impact areas like the revitalization of iconic cities. We discussed these initiatives and other impact investing topics in this live interview.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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Indian Banks to ensure minimum remuneration to business correspondents
Over 220,000 BCs had been appointed by banks after the RBI pushed this as a cost-effective way of extending banking services to the unbanked villages
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- South Asia
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Innovations in Education: What CEI has learned in its first year, and what’s ahead
In its first year, the Center for Education Innovations has documented close to 500 programs serving the poor in more than 135 countries. Next up: Understanding more about what works, why and how.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Leading From the Front: How we helped develop the Truelift Assessment Tool, and why MFIs should use it
There will always be skepticism about the microfinance industry’s initiatives to promote transparency. Nevertheless, Freedom from Hunger CEO Steve Hollingworth says that organizations like his are working to refocus the sector on poor clients’ needs. He describes how Truelift, a global initiative to promote accountability and learning in pro-poor development, advances that goal.
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- Impact Assessment
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