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Financial Inclusion

A penny saved is two pennies earned for women in savings groups

In May, Oxfam America and Freedom from Hunger published the largest study to date on the impact of community-based savings groups. And the findings are promising.

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Financial Inclusion

Fiji students are about to become the world's savviest savers

Fiji is leading the world in money management education, by exposing almost 200,000 students to savings and budgeting skills starting next month.

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Social Enterprise

Quotable: Microinsurance penetration set to double by 2020

By 2020, over 1 billion people in poor countries will be covered under microinsurance.

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Value Chains

Pairing risk reduction with income generation makes communities more resilient

People earning money are more likely to protect their homes, land and life before disaster strikes, rather than only responding after traumatic events occur.

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Social Enterprise

Africa is finally booming, but don’t break out the champagne yet

Africans are celebrating levels of economic growth and political stability that were unthinkable just 10 years ago, but without the appropriate economic and political reforms, the continent could quickly relapse.

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Value Chains

Natural disasters cost corporations $400 billion in 2011, UN says

Environmental disasters not only cripple smallholder farmers, they also mean high costs for the corporations at the buying end of the supply chain. A forthcoming UN report will show just how detrimental those costs can be.

Vegetables at Market <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bioversity/6672475021/sizes/z/in/photostream/">Bioversity International (Flickr)</a>.

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Social Enterprise

You can't solve poverty by supplying products not in demand

Are humanitarian aid groups really demand-driven? Development economist James Riordan, says NGOs, government agencies and consulting firms, overwhelmingly, are not.

One of Steve's first stints with Mercy Corps was in the steppe of Mongolia. Photo: Paul Dudley Hart/Mercy Corps

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Social Enterprise

Development failures, "project to enterprise" and shared value: A Q&A with Mercy Corps' new social innovations head

As an insurance holder, she knows the next big storm won't wipe out all her assets. Photo: Fabiola Coupet/Mercy Corps

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Inside microinsurance, a view from Haiti

As Tropical Storm Isaac hit Haiti in late August, all eyes were watching to see whether the country would be overwhelmed by the latest storm.

Rainforest advocates in Indonesia. One thinker claims the modern environmental movement has played little role in staving off the catastrophes it predicted in the 1970s. Photo <a href="http://flic.kr/p/aaj1bD">Rainforest Action Network (Flickr)</a>

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Sustainable Energy

Don't panic, environmentalists: A richer world can be a better one

Forty years ago, a shocking report tagged economic growth as the catalyst for environmental collapse. Now, a new article claims the world's responses to that forecast failed to make things better.