Jan 4, 2017 | Blockchain Governance, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Poverty Alleviation
In our 2013 study of the challenges of financial inclusion Financial Inclusion: Barter to Bitcoins, Bricks and Mortar to Mobile—Developing 21st Century Financial Services Solutions for the Unbanked Poor we looked at the limites imposed by marginal involvement in the...
Nov 4, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Wellbeing, Operational and Delivery Networks, Platforms, Poverty Alleviation
CloudFactory, the technology outsourcing company based in Kathmandu, connects workers in developing countries with client companies worldwide. The employees benefit from skills training and job creation, and the clients get quick and cost-effective data entry and...
Sep 20, 2015 | Cities, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing, Human Rights, Peace & Conflict, Poverty Alleviation
Richard Curtis, the film-maker known for hits like Love Actually and Bridget Jones’s Diary, as well as for his work with Comic Relief, is the founder of Project Everyone, a collaboration with the UN to give prominence to the Sustainable Development Goals. The...
Aug 18, 2015 | Employment & Prosperity, Poverty Alleviation
International Youth Day, August 12th, was a day to recognize the importance of youth worldwide. The day is particularly significant in Africa, where almost 200 million people are between the ages of 15 and 24. The population is younger than anywhere else on the...
Jun 29, 2015 | Employment & Prosperity, Poverty Alleviation
One of the UN’s MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) of 2000 was to eradicate extreme poverty by 2015, yet one in six people are still surviving on a dollar a day. Or less. Striking photos by the Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Renee C. Byer have been...
Feb 19, 2015 | Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Knowledge Networks, Poverty Alleviation
According to the recently released FinScope Consumer Survey conducted in Zimbabwe in 2014, financial participation has risen nearly 20% over three years, apparently driven by increasing use of mobile money platforms. The research will allow policy makers to develop...
