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Why Health Care Remains Poor in NGO-rich Haiti, and How Social Enterprises Can Fix It
Haiti is well known for its high concentration of aid-driven actors; no other country in the world has more NGOs per capita. And that's not a good thing. It's led to a chaotic marketplace which adversely impacts vulnerable people, according to Allison Howard-Berry of Care 2 Communities. She believes, however, that a social enterprise approach to health services in Haiti can work, in time, and describes how.
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- Health Care
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India’s Note Ban Shrinks Microfinance Securitisation by 79% in Second Half of FY17
The impact of demonetisation on microfinance securitisation volumes has led to a slump of 79 per cent in the second half of FY17′. “The decline is to the tune of 79 per cent in the second half of the FY17′ at Rs 1,650 crore compared to Rs 8,000 crore in the six months of the previous year,” ICRA Head–Structured Finance, Vibhor Mittal told PTI.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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India: Hero Enterprises to invest $15.5m in Aavishkaar Bharat Fund
Hero Enterprises today announced a Rs 100 crore ($15.5 million) investment in impact investor Aavishkaar’s new fund, the Aavishkaar Bharat Fund. Aavishkaar Bharat Fund is the investor’s sixth fund, and is a SEBI registered Category II Alternative Investment Fund.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Hooked on Sustainable Fish? Great – Now Let’s Help Fishers Who Net Them
Small-scale fishing operations play a critical role in food security and alleviating poverty, but face many challenges in developing countries. The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, which has helped build social businesses that train fishers and fish farmers to adopt sustainable practices, is among a growing group of stakeholders working toward a common goal of preserving our oceans and fisheries.
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- Environment
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A Goal Within Sight: How Blindness Prevention Can Empower Women and Boost Emerging Markets
Ninety percent of the world’s visually impaired population live in low-income settings, and many lose their sight simply because they don’t have access to eye care. Women, who make up two-thirds of the world’s blind people, are especially at risk. Orbis, which partners with local hospitals in emerging economies to create customized eye care training programs, suggests it's time to rethink health care, and to do it through the lens of gender equity.
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- Health Care
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Tanzania: 47% of GDP Transferred in Mobile Money Revolution
When Vodacom introduced the mobile money transfer service, M-Pesa, in 2008 financial inclusion in the country was below 16 per cent. Only eight years later, financial inclusion increased fivefold to reach 86 per cent putting Tanzania well ahead of most Sub-Saharan African countries.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Home Sweet Home: Mobilizing Microfinance for Housing
Only 2 percent of microfinance portfolios consist of housing loans. Why? The authors say it's because housing languishes in the “household spending” category; it's not income generating, so it's somehow less deserving. It will soon be in the spotlight, however, as the eighth European Microfinance Award focuses on what financial institutions serving the world’s poor can do to address their housing needs.
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- Investing
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Putting Vision into Focus: Lessons on Scaling Up a Social Enterprise
Out of everyone experiencing vision losses globally, 2.5 billion of them can have their vision restored with just a pair of eyeglasses. BRAC and VisionSpring are tackling this problem in Bangladesh through an innovative social entrepreneurship model: They sell low-cost reading glasses to low-wage earners through BRAC’s network of community health workers.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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