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Financial Inclusion

Econ 101: Three different ways to lift girls out of poverty

New projects that teach young women how to start a business, hold a bank account, and apply for financial aid can help to give them better futures out of the hallmarks of poverty -- poor health care, forced marriage, and early childbirth.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Tech hubs in Libya and Egypt + Western Union goes mobile

Turmoil doesn't stop entrepreneurs in Egypt and Libya, Western Union gets further in to mobile money and land grabs may not the the most profitable option. Staff picks: What we're reading this week

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Global Ideas News Brief: Big data for climate resilience + Costs of sanitation

Big data creates a new underclass, poor sanitation drains resources, and how cell phones are transforming healthcare in Africa. Staff picks: What we're reading this week.

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Value Chains

Good charity v. bad charity

People face a complex and murky world when they decide to donate. Two ethicists lay out how they think you should decide.

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Mobile Technology

Quotable: Internet for the next 5 billion people

Will extending Internet access to the world's poorest solve all social problems? Yunus and Zuckerberg think so.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Twists on philanthropic thinking + big data

Peter Buffett questions philanthropic giving models, text messages help the urban poor and Pakistan's threat from water. Staff picks: What we're reading this week.

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Value Chains

Toms shoes responds to critics, but it may not be enough

Toms’ buy-one, give-one corporate philanthropy model has repeatedly come under fire from critics for doing more harm than good. But the shoe company's recent efforts to evolve its giving model still fall short.

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Value Chains

What if consumers could choose to buy garments based on how socially responsibly it was made in Bangladesh?

Dr. Yunus, the Nobel Laureate pioneer of microfinance, proposes a garment industry transparency index.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Taxing telcos + Affordable insurance

New! Staff picks: A roundup of news we're reading this week.

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Value Chains

Brother or bully: Leaders squabble over role of big business in alleviating global hunger

The G8’s goal to increase private sector investment in Africa could offer new solutions to global hunger or it could be the new face of a failed solution.

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Value Chains

Interview: Helping coffee farmers turns competitors into colleagues

We talk with Green Mountain Coffee about their new hunger-busting coalition with Starbucks, Counter Culture, Farmer Brothers, S&D Coffee, and Sustainable Harvest.

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Social Enterprise

Business schools drive a global boom in social entrepreneurship

An MBA in social enterprise isn’t just for a few elites anymore. Studies from Harvard Business School and Bridgespan Group show social enterprise exploding at business schools around the world.

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An interview with Global Envision's founder on our 10th anniversary

When many youth and NGOs protested the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Seattle in 1999, Global Envision’s founder Bill Early saw an opportunity to create a dialogue about how globalization and capitalism could help lift people out of poverty. This idea eventually became Global Envision.

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Financial Inclusion

Interview: Mobile services a ‘game changer’ for financial inclusion

Pairing information access with mobile cash services opens new doors for farmers and other low-income residents of developing countries.

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Value Chains

Quotable: Land O'Lakes seeds economic opportunity and peace through dairy farming

How do you boost farmers in post-conflict regions like Sri Lanka? Jon Halverson of Land O'Lakes discusses how the U.S. dairy co-op blended commercial and development work in an interview on DevEx.