Clik here to view.
Why financial inclusion for youth will raise all economic boats
Image: Groups fighting for financial inclusion and youth employment united in Morocco. Will their findings promote progress?Youth face economic concerns across the globe, but statistics are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Windows to the world: Why Microsoft's $75 million mobile drop matters
Microsoft will spend $75 million to put tens of millions of smart devices into the hands of African youth by 2016, the company announced Monday.As Forbes reported, the Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Waiting for a white-collar job: a sure way to extend unemployment in Nigeria
The Kwara state government in Nigeria is promoting traditional vocations in an effort to change young minds uninterested in any position outside the glamorous white-collar realm. A recent UN report...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How a Tanzania NGO scrapped grants to build markets that last
When it comes to solving poverty, sometimes the best way to get more done is to move out of the driver's seat.At least that’s what the Rural Livelihoods and Development Program (RLDP), a Tanzania-based...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Philippine life insurers find runaway success in MFI partnerships
It's taken 40 years of experimentation, but in the Philippines, a unique business model has found a way to sell life insurance hand over fist to poor people.The country's "mutual benefit associations,"...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MFIs should offer more than just microfinance, study finds
Despite the surging popularity of microfinance in the last several decades, access among the poor in Asia and the Pacific remains low. A new report says technology and livelihood programs will put it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hurricane Sandy triggers largest Haiti microinsurance payout to date
The reinsurance company Microinsurance Catastrophe Risk Organisation (MiCRO) will make a significant payout to the Haitian microfinance institution Fonkoze following Hurricane Sandy. Fonkoze will use...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dear traditional development assistance: The end is near
In a speech last week at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) conference, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reminded development practitioners, politicos and philanthropists that their ultimate...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A closer look at India's new health microinsurance scheme
As mentioned in last week's post, India set out four years ago to achieve universal health coverage for poor families using a massive system of state-subsidized private microinsurance.In the video...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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. Though the winds and rains didn’t cause widespread damage,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
India: Knocking the poor back on their feet with microinsurance
Hospitalization can save a life--at the cost, sometimes, of throwing it permanently off track. Two very different countries, India and the United States, recently chose a similar solution: subsidized...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tropical Storm Isaac triggers microinsurance payout for small business owners...
Many of the women who will receive insurance payouts earn less than $2 a day selling small wares and staple foods. Photo: Jeremy Barnicle/Mercy CorpsThis article was republished by The Christian...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Q&A with Mercy Corps CEO about market innovations to poverty
Mercy Corps CEO Neal Keny-Guyer and NextBillion's editor Scott Anderson discuss where Mercy Corps is heading and how its past has informed its future, especially when it comes to business development....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Afghanistan's superhero: mobile phones fight crime, liberate women and enrich...
As Afghanistan’s leading telecommunications provider, Roshan’s mobile phone service is transforming security, information sharing and entrepreneurship in the world’s second most corrupt country.In...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Doing less, better: The case for higher prices at the bottom of the pyramid
The only way to make money selling things to the very poor is with miniscule prices, microscopic margins and massive volume—right?Wrong, wrong, wrong, says Cornell scholar Erik Simanis. Most products...
View Article
![[-100%] Commodity Intelligence – (Android Apps)](http://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/j67-qJvmnn4xnVlYVZ9ZhtZUJIgwjKekJGoKQT6D1KHcWGZxtQaFroummEvwV17na7tyh1pGbbeWCRdWtTKqeg=w950-h950)