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May 25, 2012 - 7:57pm
from AidData: The First Tranche
Global Integrity broke 'open government' down into three core values: information transparency, public engagement, and accountability. Amina Az Zubair, CEO of Nigeria’s Centre for Development Policy Solutions, George Ndungu, National Coordinator for the Kenya Youth Network ...
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May 25, 2012 - 12:53pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
This year's G8 saw a significant change in the summit's approach – it was a low-key meeting hosted at President Barack Obama's Camp David retreat. Emphasis was on informal bilateral time for leaders to discuss issues of the day such as the global economy, the eurozone and political and ...
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May 24, 2012 - 11:23am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Confirmation that David Cameron is to co-chair the UN process to devise a new framework for international development after 2015 has opened the debate on whether he is a credible candidate for the role. Jonathan Glennie has ...
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May 22, 2012 - 12:00pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Uncertainty, distrust, confusion, insecurity and enormous doubt seem to be among the sentiments hounding many Afghans as they count down to the 2014 security handover by troops from Nato's International Security and Assistance Force.According to a
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May 22, 2012 - 9:00am
from Acumen Fund Blog
Below is the full-text of Jacqueline Novogratz’s Commencement Address given at Gettysburg College on May 20, 2012.
Thank you, President Riggs.
David, you’re a hard act to follow. In the past 24 hours as I was listening to your classmates speak, I was thinking that I finally have a sense of what it means to be “Gettysburg Great.” I am so honored to be with you and so honored to be receiving this degree with Karl Mattson who’s such a wonderful person. And I am ...
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May 16, 2012 - 12:57pm
from Microfinance Africa
By William Pesek, Today Online
The iPhone has become a symbol of something Steve Jobs never envisioned: Chinese sweatshops.
Any of us ...
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May 16, 2012 - 10:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Years after debt campaigners succeeded in persuading the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and G8 to abolish debts worth billions of dollars owed by developing countries, figures show total external debts are once again on the increase.Data in the World Bank's
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May 15, 2012 - 12:51pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
Enrollment in rural Afghanistan, as you might suspect, is fairly low. And, while the primary enrollment gap between boys and girls has closed in most parts of the world, it’s alive and well here (as well as in some parts of Africa). But an interesting paper by Dana Burde and Leigh Linden gives us hope. (Gated version here and earlier ungated version
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May 15, 2012 - 12:40pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
LONDON, May 15 (Bernama) — A microfinance provider in south Indian state Karnataka has been selected alongside seven other organisations from Peru, Indonesia, Cambodia and Afghanistan as a finalist for the Ashden Awards, the world’s leading green energy prize.
The finalists will compete for over 120,000 pound prize money with the winners to be announced at a prestigious ceremony ...
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May 15, 2012 - 12:38pm
from Microfinance Africa
LONDON, May 15 (Bernama) — A microfinance provider in south Indian state Karnataka has been selected alongside seven other organisations from Peru, Indonesia, Cambodia and ...
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May 15, 2012 - 7:47am
from Google news - microfinance
Indian Microfinance Provider Finalist For Global Green Energy AwardBernamaLONDON, May 15 (Bernama) -- A microfinance provider in south Indian state Karnataka has been selected alongside seven other organisations from Peru, Indonesia, Cambodia and Afghanistan as a finalist for ...
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May 11, 2012 - 12:44pm
from BRAC Blog
The following is an excerpt from and article by Josh Kwan published in the Spring 2012 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
First, the good news. More children in places of poverty are attending school than ever before.2 Thanks to a major push by governments and donors, many countries ...
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May 8, 2012 - 1:10pm
from BRAC Blog
The following was originally posted by BRAC USA President and CEO Susan Davis on the World Education blog.With the Education for All goals and the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015 on our ...
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May 7, 2012 - 12:25pm
from BRAC Blog
Knight Commander, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed and Nobel Laureate, Muhammad Yunus, have been marked as the creators of the world’s two best organizations – BRAC and Grameen Bank – by the visiting US secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton. In an early morning 9 o’clock meeting on 6 May 2012, at the Gulshan Residence of the US ambassador of Bangladesh, Dan W Mozena; Sir Fazle ...
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May 3, 2012 - 10:00am
from CGAP Technology Blog
This is the fifth and final post in our series on remittances and branchless banking. You can read the first four posts here. So far, we have highlighted the emerging success factors and challenges featured in our 2012 landscaping exercise. Paolo Baltao from Globe’s GCASH shared with us the lessons learned over a period of eight years during which time he led one of the first ...
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May 3, 2012 - 1:46am
from David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
If you follow microfinance blogs, you probably know that the World Bank has released a big database called Global Findex. With muscular funding from the Gates Foundation, the World Bank ran an ambitious polling project to learn about what financial services people use and how they use them—or why they don’t. Some 150,000 people were interviewed in 148 countries. And that’s just the first round: the surveys will be repeated, the grant lasting 10 years.
It’s clear ...
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April 25, 2012 - 12:18pm
from Microfinance Africa
From One World South Asia
A microfinance organisation, in the southern state of ...
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April 23, 2012 - 6:32pm
from Kiva.org
“My hope is that each day before I go to bed, I play a small part in improving the lives of five strangers somewhere around the globe.” City: Oak Bluffs, MA Language: English Team: Only the Loanly Time with Kiva: Since August 2011 Outstanding ...
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April 17, 2012 - 2:34pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The new World Bank president must overcome concerns about the legitimacy of the leadership selection process even as he tackles three key problems.First, he must lead the Bank in ...
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April 3, 2012 - 8:41pm
from BRAC Blog
By Rod Dubitsky, Board Member, BRAC USA
In this highly partisan political season, where economic calamity is deemed inevitable if the wrong party is elected, “The Coming Prosperity” is a refreshing new entrant on the bookshelf. It is a book at odds with political rhetoric, but squares nicely with emerging global trends. The argument, in a ...
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