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OPINION: Latin America’s Silicon Valley: That would be Colombia
Today, nearly half of the world lives in poverty, including nearly a quarter of Californians. The United States, like every nation, grapples with the challenge of income inequality. Colombia is no different.
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Latin America
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- research
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Microfinancing Mexico Via Responsible Tourism Activities
Fundacion En Via aims to empower women in Mexican villages with interest-free loans and business coaching.
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- Latin America
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Brazil Approves GM Mosquito That Could Cut Dengue
The approval was made last week (10 April) by the National Technical Commission on Biosecurity, the organisation that regulates transgenic organisms in Brazil.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Latin America
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Incofin Investment Management’s Rural Impulse Fund Acquires Equity Stake in FIELCO From Accion Gateway Fund
FIELCO expects to use Incofin IM’s expertise in international microfinance to “strengthen its governance, focus on social performance and overall structure”
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- Latin America
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Sustaining Recent Social Progress May Require a Squeeze on the Rich
Latin Americans, the past dozen years have been remarkable. The region has seen a magical combination of faster economic growth, falling poverty and declining income inequality. Is this unprecedented period of progress over?
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- Education
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- Latin America
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- governance
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Claro to Launch ‘First’ Commercial NFC Mobile Payments in Latin America
The NFC-based service will work at more than 200,000 payment points in retail outlets when it launches in the first half of this year, according to the project’s vendor Giesecke & Devrient (G&D).
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- Latin America
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TriLinc Global Impact Fund Makes Impact Investments in Peru, Indonesia, Brazil and Chile
TriLinc Global Impact Fund approves a $576,000 loan on March 25, 2014 to an agro-business company in Peru, bringing total loans funded in 2014 to $5.741 million for business expansion and socioeconomic development in Latin America and Southeast Asia
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- Impact Assessment
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- Latin America
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- impact investing
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Brazil Just Became The First Country Ever To Pay Reparations For A Maternal Death
Three years after a landmark human rights ruling, Brazil offers reparations and public commemoration. But the structural inequalities that led to a 28-year-old’s death remain.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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