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Financial Inclusion

“FINALLY A PANEL AND NOT A 'MANEL'”: GENDER EQUALITY DOMINATES DAVOS

Influencers called for global gender inclusivity at the 2018 World Economic Forum.

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Financial Inclusion

How cell phones are transforming farming

Through Mercy Corps and AgriFin, small-scale farmers are increasing produce and profit with the help of cell phones.

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Social Enterprise

The Women Left Behind in Senegal

Senegalese women create a women's collective to reduce the perilous migration of job-seeking young men to Europe.

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Value Chains

This Roof Fights Rain, Heat, Climate Change and Monkeys

When two feet of rain fell on Ahmedabad, India, during the monsoon season, residents like Meena Soni thought about upgrading their roofs. Until recently, they had no choice but to go into debt for an expensive concrete slab roof.

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Social Enterprise

Why start a social enterprise in Haiti?

An interview with Bruce McMartin, about why he started a coffee company that trains, supports, and provides jobs for Haitian farmers.

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Social Enterprise

One Acre Fund and the new Green Revolution

The problems ending hunger in Africa — and around the world — One Acre Fund must face.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Shaking the caste system

A weekly round-up of mainstream news about the context in which Mercy Corps works, focused on economic development and innovation.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Including women in financial inclusion

A weekly round-up of mainstream news about the context in which Mercy Corps works, focused on economic development and innovation.

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Financial Inclusion

Make Good Choices: Rethinking Microcredit with Behavioral Economics

Microcredit seems simple. Provide the poor with access to credit and businesses and entrepreneurship will flourish in the developing world. But what happens when people lack information and are stifled by stress, as many poor people are?

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Sustainable Energy

A brighter outlook on energy poverty

Some companies are helping to increase access to solar energy in developing nations: Here's how

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Mobile Technology

A Deeper Dive into Female Friendly Mobile Programs

Mobile access is on the rise, but women have been left out of those advancements so important to providing financial services to developing communities.