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Unrestricted Funding, Famous Alums Fuel Coveted Fellowship For Social Entrepreneurs
Echoing Green. If you’re apt in poetry or if you just Googled the name, you’d know it was the title of a poem by William Blake that begins with “The sun does arise, And make happy the skies.” That theme of embracing a better world translates to another Echoing Green — a nonprofit that empowers social entrepreneurs, in part by offering what have become prestigious fellowships.
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World Bank review shows flaws in social, environment safeguards process
(Reuters) - The World Bank has systemic defects in its procedures to ensure that people and the environment are not harmed in development projects, according to an internal review obtained by Reuters.
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- Environment
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OPINION: Five reasons why Modi government’s grand financial inclusion plan won’t work
The Modi-government has somewhat bought the idea of universal bank accounts, something first proposed by the Nachiket Mor panel in January, 2014. The plan will finally come up with a little bit of 'Modi'-fication. Instead of one full service bank account for every adult citizen by January 2016—the idea proposed by the Mor panel—the government plans to offer two bank account for every household within the next year.
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Telecel Zimbabwe launches mobile money credit card
Zimbabwe's second largest telco by subscriber numbers, Telecel, on Wednesday launched a credit card for its mobile money system Telecash.
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OPIC: Let’s leverage impact investing to make aid funding sustainable
Much of the impact investing field has been driven by public sector actors, which have an important role to play both in the way they deploy their capital and the work that they can do to build the industry.
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Kenya mobiles step up rivalry
NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya’s lucrative mobile money transfer market is set for unprecedented competition following the entry of three additional telecoms operators with intention to have a piece of the sector’s billion shillings pie.
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Profiting from poverty: Do some companies benefit from twisted images of Africa?
In recent years there has been a change in thinking and narrative when it comes to Africa’s representation in western media. A good example of this is The Economist’s special report last year that referred to Africa as the “Hopeful Continent”, a mere 13 years after publishing the front cover that dubbed it the “Hopeless Continent”.
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Nearing A Deadline, Is The World Going To Meet The Millennium Development Goals?
The latest UN appraisal shows progress, but in some areas, such as child mortality and biodiversity loss, we're falling short.
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