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Global Ideas News Brief: Climate insurance + Arab startups

Climate insurance, Arab startups, and a get-rich way to help the poor. Staff picks: what we're reading this week.

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Financial Inclusion

Slideshow: 8 Facts about Financial Inclusion and Gender

A new World Bank report shows that women still fall behind men in financial inclusion.

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Global Ideas News Brief: High tech toilets + Black market medicine

High tech toilets, black market malaria medication and building resilience. Staff picks: What we're reading this week.

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Twitter and international development: Who to follow and why

Here's a list of three interesting users to follow for each of Global Envision’s six beats.

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Value Chains

Partnering with the poor: 4 powerful programs fighting poverty

Over the past decade, aid organizations have moved from handouts and giveaways to making markets work for, and by, the poor. Here's four groups leading the charge.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Pyramid schemes + Complex stories

Face to face contact works for Africa's poorest customers, the promise of small-scale Ag and why NGOs should tell complex stories. Staff picks: what we're reading this week

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Financial Inclusion

Cash cows: Why making bank accounts function like livestock will help the poor

In an age of mobile banking and digital transactions, many poor people still shun basic banking services and put their extra money in livestock. Why?

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Global Ideas News Brief: Hope in Congo + Another Kiva

Cash transfers are working, a look at income inequality and hope in the Congo. Staff Picks: What we're reading this week

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Social Enterprise

Social investment takes the stage: Five forums you should know about

Several social investment forums brought social investment into the mainstream and helped create and finance social investment and enterprise projects to improve human and environmental well-being and make a financial return.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Should business solve society's biggest problems?

Why business can be good at solving the world's problems, escaping the cycle of scarcity, and the data revolution reaching further. 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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Financial Inclusion

Day 1 at Mobile Money: Technology to Transform Transactions

What’s the best way to deliver on the promise of mobile money to bring financial inclusion to the BoP? The Center for Effective Global Action hosted dozens of telecommunications, banking, research and mobile money experts to explore that question.

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Social Enterprise

Columbia Business School student explains impact investing and its main players

Until recently, investors had to choose between earning a social or financial return on your investment. Impact investing marries the two.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Grapes in Afghanistan + Rodman in North Korea

Staff Picks: What we're reading this week. Afghan farmers face future uncertainty, Dennis Rodman talks about his N. Korea trip and the global elite's favorite strongman.