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		<title>Creating healthy businesses in Paraguay</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visión Banco, the biggest microfinance bank of Paraguay, invites starting or otherwise vulnerable micro-entrepreneurs to participate in a two-day course designed to strengthen their enterprises. The course, called Negocios que [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebuilding post-revolution Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘As many other post-revolution countries, Egypt is facing challenging times. We chose to see this as an opportunity to work together, to join forces for a better future. That is why we started The District, a hub for entrepreneurs,’ says social entrepreneur, founder and director Mazen Helmy. ]]></description>
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		<title>The value propositions of branchless banking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Branchless banking is not new: at the end of 2012, there were 150 live mobile money services around the world. However, around 90 percent of these have failed to be taken up by the market which they were intended to serve – customers may sign up, but then never or rarely use the service. Why has this happened? And indeed, why has it continued to happen? Can this trend be reversed, so that deploying Alternative Delivery Channels for financial services show ongoing returns that exceed the cost of their implementation, and simultaneously offer measurable benefits for the low-income clients who they are intended to serve?]]></description>
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		<title>Fundamental shift in banking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Berlin Declaration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 13 March 2013, the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), a network of the world’s leading sustainable banks, issued a declaration in Berlin outlining how the banking system should be transformed. The declaration calls for a fundamental shift in how banks operate in order to make them more transparent, sustainable and diverse.]]></description>
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		<title>100% renewable energy on Sumba</title>
		<link>http://www.upsides.com/2013/03/26/100-renewable-energy-on-sumba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Energy & Climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food & Agriculture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sumba, a relatively unknown island in the Indonesian archipelago, is setting an example for the world. The majority of its 650,000 inhabitants are poor, self-subsistence farmers. Until recently, only about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agro-ecology is the answer</title>
		<link>http://www.upsides.com/2013/03/26/agro-ecology-is-the-answer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Food & Agriculture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Irene Cardoso, professor of soil science and vice president of the Brazilian Agro-ecology Association, we are not asking the right questions when it comes to the role of agriculture in feeding a growing world population. But when we do, we see that agro-ecology is the only answer.]]></description>
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		<title>Banking beyond branches</title>
		<link>http://www.upsides.com/2013/03/25/banking-beyond-branches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Responsible finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bKash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[branchless banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Omni]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banks in emerging and developing countries are increasingly recognising the potential of the low-income market segment. However, setting up and running a bank branch is an expensive business. This is where branchless banking comes in. Read the first article in an insightful series of three on how banking beyond conventional branches creates financial inclusion for all.]]></description>
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		<title>Skipping to green</title>
		<link>http://www.upsides.com/2013/03/25/skipping-to-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Energy & Climate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Serbia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there a way to enhance energy efficiency and generate clean reliable power in countries that are struggling in the current economic climate? According to Lloyd Stevens, director of Finance in Motion, there is: ‘Just make sure its value is visible.’]]></description>
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		<title>Revival of the traditional spice chain in Madagascar</title>
		<link>http://www.upsides.com/2013/02/28/revival-of-the-traditional-spice-chain-in-madagascar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.upsides.com/2013/02/28/revival-of-the-traditional-spice-chain-in-madagascar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>upsides</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trade in cloves is over 500 years old, with Madagascar being the largest producer of cloves in the world, after Indonesia. Apart from their use in the kitchen, cloves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A corporation should be more than a money cow</title>
		<link>http://www.upsides.com/2013/02/28/why-a-corporation-should-be-so-much-more-than-a-money-cow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.upsides.com/2013/02/28/why-a-corporation-should-be-so-much-more-than-a-money-cow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy & Climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Responsible finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[footprint]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We need a new market system according to Pavan Sukhdev, founder/CEO of GIST Advisory. A market that is not set on just financial success but for once focuses on the whole picture. And the former banker is getting a head start. By putting a value on impacts on natural and human capital, for example. ]]></description>
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