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Guarantees Transforming Impact-Investing Finance
“Guarantees are underutilized in impact investing, and hence there’s great potential for scaling their use,” says Abhilash Mudaliar, director of research at the GIIN.
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- Investing
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The High Cost of ‘Data Darkness’ in the Developing World
The developing world is data dark, writes Tara Thiagarajan of Madura Microfinance; gathering even the most elementary data is a monumental task, requiring feet on the ground, paid employees and auditing systems. Without it, however, products don’t have good market fit, customers don’t get what they really need and the cost of customer acquisition and delivery is higher.
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- Uncategorized
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From Trash to Resource: How Technology Can Help Informal Waste Pickers Solve India’s Recycling Problem
Due to its dependence on informal waste pickers, urban waste management in India is at once a complex problem to solve, and an excellent business opportunity. Kabadiwalla Connect, a tech-based social enterprise, is using smartphones and innovative logistics to help this informal ecosystem of urban recyclers make a better living and keep untold tons of garbage out of landfills.
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- Environment, Social Enterprise, Technology, WASH
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WHO to help bring cheap biosimilar cancer drugs to poor
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to launch a pilot project this year to assess cheap copies of expensive biotech cancer drugs in a bid to make such medicines more widely available in poorer countries.
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- Health Care
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Geodata Technology Moving Into New Fields. Literally.
Geodata and ICT applications help farmers with precision farming, leading to increased yields and improved quality. This information has not yet been made available to financial institutions at a large scale, but it has the potential to increase access to finance for smallholder farmers. The Rabobank Foundation and NpM have launched a Board of Inspiration to help speed the process.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Ted 2017: Frugal scientist offers malaria tools
Manu Prakash, a bio-engineer at Stanford University, designs cheap tools that can make a big difference in the poorest parts of the world.
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- Health Care
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Remittances to Developing Countries Decline for Second Consecutive Year
Remittances to developing countries fell for a second consecutive year in 2016, a trend not seen in three decades, says the latest edition of the Migration and Development Brief, released today during the World Bank’s Spring Meetings. The Bank estimates that officially recorded remittances to developing countries amounted to $429 billion in 2016, a decline of 2.4 percent over $440 billion in 2015. Global remittances, which include flows to high-income countries, contracted by 1.2 percent to $575 billion in 2016, from $582 billion in 2015.
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Six Promising Approaches for Scaling Health Care in Low-Resource Settings
Many health care interventions in low-resource settings are able to achieve initial impact, but the challenges are so great that few models have the potential to scale. However, Nakul Goswami, associate vice president of Intellecap Innovation Labs, has identified a few innovators showing promise. He explores why they work, and what other health care providers serving vulnerable communities can learn from their models.
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- Health Care
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