Jonas Taylor 
Impact Investing and Microfinance are vastly different, yet, fundamentally the same when it comes to making a positive social impact. Both of them aim to generate financial benefits and returns while simultaneously promoting positive social change. Impact investments can generate enough financial return to contribute to a multitude of societal issues, including climate change, renewable … Read more
Economic experts have recognized financial education as the key to financial inclusion and freedom. Financial freedom and security will boost consumer spending, accelerating industrial production and creating jobs. The requirement for financial education has become the core component of multiple countries’ economic policies and shall continue to be to bring the equitable distribution of wealth … Read more
Health indicators can cover certain characteristics of a population that can be quantifiable for researchers to use. As they take this information to measure up the health of that population. Now certain leading indicators of health can be easily included in this list, like the accessibility of common people to healthcare services, the overall quality … Read more
Microfinance institutions came with the main intention of helping people by providing them with microloans. But slowly, due to a lack of proper regulation and legal framework, they started offering predatory services to the clients. To deal with this, the “Global Appeal for Responsible Microfinance” was introduced during the Convergences 2015 World Forum in Paris. … Read more
These days, fintech companies are getting very famous. Fintech companies are basically technology-based companies that provide innovative financial services and products through digital channels. Fintech is a combination of “finance” and “technology”, and fintech companies leverage advanced technology and software to create new and innovative ways to offer financial services and products to customers. With … Read more
With the advancement in technology and popularity and easy access to phones, online transactions through mobile phones are getting very famous throughout the world. Even in developing countries like Kenya, people are getting used to mobile transactions. Mobile money has definitely made our lives easy. Now you do not need to rush to the bank … Read more
The Ebola virus came as a shocker for everyone. No one was prepared for it. Many people lost their lives, and others lost their family members, jobs, and businesses. Most affected countries by this virus were Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. The Ebola virus spread in Africa from 2014-2016. Africa is in its developing stage, … Read more
Mexico faces a range of health challenges, from infectious diseases to chronic conditions and mental health issues. Some of the most common diseases in Mexico are insect-borne diseases, hepatitis, obesity, depression, tuberculosis, diabetes, Vector-borne diseases, Gastrointestinal diseases, etc. But when it comes to healthcare, good healthcare is very expensive, so it becomes very difficult for … Read more
The poverty rate in China has been in decline. According to the Vice Minister of Finance, Yu Weiping, it has reached its goal of poverty reduction by the end of 2020. Although they have succeeded in pulling a large chunk of their population out of extreme poverty, the present low-income sector is unable to fully … Read more
Microfinance is a form of microcredit that provides loans and financial support to various small enterprises and businesses for their growth and development. It has been proved in a study that around 1.6 billion people around the world are unbanked and without essential financial services. Most of the people falling in this group mostly belong … Read more
