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Asia’s rich investors embrace social-impact investments
Asia's millionaires are the most socially conscious investors among their global peers, according to a new report.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing, research
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Survey: Multiple microloans making borrowers highly indebted in Indonesia
Fifty-nine percent of micro borrowers may be indebted as they face difficulties managing their finances to repay their mounting loans, according to a recent survey conducted in four cities in West Java.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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South Africa Plans Health Study to Track Half a Million People
South Africa's government has announced that it will expand the country’s existing demographic studies to create a project that will be the largest of its kind in Africa — tracking the health, income, and educational attainment of around 1% of South Africa’s population.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- research
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IMF Releases the 2016 Financial Access Survey, A Key Tool to Foster Financial Inclusion
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released today the results of the seventh annual Financial Access Survey, a key source of data on financial inclusion.
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What We’ve Got Here is a Failure to Communicate: Three Ways to Bridge the Academic/Practitioner Gap
Evidence-based policymaking requires a collaborative relationship between the worlds of research, policy and practice. But productive three-way communication between these actors is difficult, as vague prejudices can limit each side's ability to listen and learn. As every failure to communicate is a missed opportunity, Innovations for Poverty Action explores some ways to improve learning and communication.
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- Finance, Social Enterprise
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South Africa is a Regional Leader in the Financial Inclusion of Women
South Africa is the only country in the Southern African Development Community in which women are more financially included than men, new research shows.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Shared Priorities Make India-Africa Health Tie-Up Critical: ICMR Chief
In an attempt to bring down dependence on the West for expertise on health research, the government is preparing the ground for a partnership with the African continent.
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- Health Care
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- research
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The AgTech Pedestal Problem: How to Bring Innovation Down to Earth
Without the knowledge to operate it and systems to maintain it, technology is a liability rather than an asset to a farmer. It cannot work in isolation. We must be careful not to place AgTech on a pedestal; AgTech can only be successful if it is grounded in the realities of the developing world farmer. But we're already seeing several examples of that emerging from "Silicon Plateau."
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise, Technology
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