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The business case for digitally-enabled smallholder finance
Learning Lab & Dalberg Global Development Advisors The Learning Lab's second deep dive exercise is exploring the business case for smallholder finance, in particular the role of digital approaches in making it possible to profitably serve this market at scale....
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Protecting tigers from Asia’s infrastructure development boom
Tiger landscapes are major contributors to socio-economic development. Infrastructure developments pose one of the greatest future threats to tigers and risk unravelling past conservation efforts The midway point of the 2010-2022 Global Tiger Recovery Program to double the number of...
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Human-Centered Design: The Design Ecosystem
Despite the increased interest in design most development organizations find it difficult to tap local design resources in key markets. We offer a comprehensive framework for strengthening the design ecosystem, identifying key market failures and opportunities to align capacity building...
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Human-Centered Design: The Design Process
Human centered design provides a robust framework for integrating user needs throughout the program design and implementation process. But it can be a challenge to determine when and where to best apply design to your work, particularly if you are...
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The landscape for impact investing in West Africa
The Global Impact Investing Network, in partnership with Dalberg Global Development Advisors, published The Landscape for Impact Investing in West Africa, a state of the market analysis of the impact investing industry in the region. The report includes regional findings...
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Mobilizing Banking For Indonesia’s Poor
In this article published in MIT Innovations Journal, Michael Mori and Trevor Zimmer assess the demand for mobile financial services and branchless banking (MFS/BB) among poor Indonesians and suggests how businesses should design and market financial products to incentivize adoption. It...
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Fishermen First: Protecting the People Behind What We Eat
In this post, Robert Fabricant and John B. Thomas discuss the violations of human rights inherent to the fishing industry today, and offer some promising ideas for intervention to contribute to a more sustainable food system and improve the lives...
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What if global development was funded by developing countries’ money ?
Originally published in The Guardian. Making the world a better place – noble in theory, but expensive in practice and ambitious to sustain. Financing the United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDGs), for example, will require more than the combined GDP of Africa’s...
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Empowering Women to Use the Mobile Internet
In developing countries, the number of unique subscribers using mobile internet has grown from 728 million in 2010 to 1.8 billion in 2014. This growth has profound implications for women’s economic, social, and political empowerment – mobile internet can help women...
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Protecting people through nature
Natural world heritage sites as drivers of sustainable development. Natural world heritage sites provide important economic, social and environmental benefits to people. these sites are recognized internationally for their outstanding universal value as places with “significance which is so exceptional as to transcend...
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When it comes to blended finance, Canada leads by example
Originally published by Devex. We are on the cusp of a radical shift in how we finance solutions to the world’s most pressing global development challenges. Here’s why: Official development assistance is now dwarfed by flows from private investors, philanthropists...
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The Landscape for Impact Investing in South Asia: a new report by Dalberg and the GIIN
Impact investing — investments that intentionally seek social and/or environmental impact alongside a financial return — holds significant potential to help meet base of the pyramid (BoP) needs in South Asia. But until now, the scope of the impact investing...
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