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Latin America: Low-Income Millennials Present Big Market Opportunities
Hardly a day passes without a new article on how businesses are analyzing the needs, wants and spending trends of millennials. In the US alone, millennials (or Generation Y), those born between 1980 and 2000, represent 30 percent of the population. By 2025 they will be 75 percent of the workforce.The impact that millennials are starting to have on the global economy, the environment, and politics is enormous.
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The ketchup sachet-shaped drug saving babies from HIV
Inside a foil sachet, which looks more at home in a fast-food restaurant, an exact dose of antiretroviral medicine is helping to protect newborn babies against the threat of infection from their HIV-positive mothers.
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This Colombian town is trying to get rid of cash — but it’s not so easy
A town of 5,000 is trying to become the first in Latin America to entirely phase out cash and rely solely on digital currency.
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Inter-American Development Bank Report Highlights Business Opportunities At Base of the Pyramid in Latin America and Caribbean
According to an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report released today, the base of the pyramid is a $759 billion market offering promising business opportunities to the private sector.
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Peru Government Installs National Strategy for Financial Inclusion
As the Peruvian Finance Minister, Alonso Segura, declared last December, social inclusion is “the foundation of Peru’s growth.” To make this possible, they increased the budget for social inclusion programs for the current year by 20%.
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Education Start-up, The Un-School of Disruptive Design, Announces Mexico City Fellowship for Emerging Leaders
Following a successful program in NYC, the Un-School has opened applications for mavericks and misfits of social innovation to join them in Mexico this November.
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Channing Tatum Retires From Stripping and Focuses on Saving Lives
Recently, we all found out Channing Tatum?'s deepest, darkest secrets revealed during an AMA — from his admittance that his acting was horrible in Step Up? to his love for Pinterest. (Yes, he seriously has a Pinterest board, and it's magical.)
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WHO Validates Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Syphilis in Cuba
Cuba today became the first country in the world to receive validation from WHO that it has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.
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