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The Most Popular Posts of 2015: Which One Most Influenced You?
For the fourth year in a row, we're launching our Most Influential Post of the Year Contest – think of it as a listicle that you control. Below are the 12 most viewed articles on NB by month. Please read or re-read them and then vote for your favorite(s).
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- Agriculture, Education, Energy, Environment, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Ebay Philanthropist Funds ‘Cryptocomplex’ Cash for Central Banks
Central banks around the world say they want to drive financial inclusion, especially since telecoms operators have provided them with an object lesson in how this can be done with digital money.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NextBillion’s Most Popular and Most Shared Posts in the 4th Quarter of 2015
Our most-viewed and most-shared blog posts from the months of October, November and December explored the history and future of impact assessment, a randomized control trial around financial inclusion in Afghanistan and technology solutions for mitigating the youth jobs shortage.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Investing
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Narayana, Which Serves India’s Poor, Going Public
All eyes are on the IPO of Narayana Hrudayalaya, the Bangalore-based affordable healthcare chain founded by India’s best-known cardiac surgeon Dr. Devi Shetty, which opens tomorrow. Dr. Shetty, 62, pioneered inexpensive cardiac surgeries by creatively and efficiently driving down costs, thus putting life-saving surgeries within the means of thousands of poor Indians. That is particularly noteworthy in a country where healthcare is mainly delivered by as-yet small number of private healthcare operators while the government spend on healthcare is a scant 1.1 % of the GDP – compared with 18% in the United States.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Does Your Organization Actually Empower Women?
Although many organizations working in international development make grandiose claims of their programs’ ability to empower women, with few tools available to actually measure empowerment, it is hard to tell if these claims are based on fact. The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index is one way to ensure that they are.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
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New IFC Report Examines Challenges to Microfinance in the Arab World
A new study from IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has found that external risks, security concerns, and over-indebtedness are perceived as the most serious challenges facing the microfinance sector in the Arab World.
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- Uncategorized
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- North Africa & Near East
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‘Seeing People for Who They Are, Not What They Can Prove on Paper’
Shubham, which is focused on helping urban, lower-income families in India own a home through financing, lays out some of the problems it has encountered and issues it foresees in the informal home loan segment.
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- Uncategorized
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IFC Lends P700 Million to Two Philippines Financial Institutions for MSME Financing
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) will provide a seven-year loan to CARD Bank, Inc. and CARD SME Bank, Inc. to benefit micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), microfinance borrowers, and women in rural areas.
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- Uncategorized
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- Asia Pacific
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