Development Blog
Financial inclusion and positive private sector impact: How CARE is engaging with business in 2015
By CARE International 15th Jan 2015
The UN Climate Change talks and the agreement of the Sustainable Development Goals are going to be incredibly important for both NGOs and business in 2015 – but what are some of the other key issues we will be working…
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Queuing to make a deposit at a bank in Uganda
MDGs, progress, challenges and the year ahead: Why 2015 will be a big year for overcoming poverty
By Laurie Lee 05th Jan 2015
2015 is set to be a big year for CARE and other organisations working to end world poverty. So where are we at, where are we going, and what do we need to do to get there?
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© CARE / Josh Estey
Ten years on from the Indian Ocean tsunami: The challenges and priorities for humanitarian action
By Laurie Lee 22nd Dec 2014
Ten years ago on Boxing Day, the Indian Ocean tsunamis crashed into the shorelines of 14 countries, killing more than 228,000 people and making almost two million more people homeless and bereaved. The scale of the disaster and the speed…
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Ernawati, a woman in Indonesia who in the aftermath of the tsunami received a Family Survival Kit from CARE, and support in starting a small business which is now thriving
Frontier healthcare in a frontier market: Why social investment is good for business, too
By Tim Bishop 18th Dec 2014
For some of the world’s frontier markets, such as in Myanmar (formerly Burma), the risks of accelerated growth are that many of the country’s poorest get left behind. But as CARE’s experience creating ‘frontier healthcare’ in partnership with GSK shows,…
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An auxiliary midwife in Lashio, Myanmar
Banks are targeting the ‘missing middle’ in developing countries – but should they be reaching further down the financial pyramid?
By Gerry Boyle 15th Dec 2014
I have just spent a few days in Dhaka talking to the Bangladesh Central Bank and a number of the key commercial banks in the country, as part of a research project into the role of banks in furthering financial…
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Asiya (right) has revived her dressmaking business thanks to a loan from her village savings group (Bangladesh, 2013)
Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) are a key way to provide access to financial services for people living in areas which financial institutions typically ignore and where the cycle of poverty prevails. They do exactly what their name suggests:…
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Milca (background, centre) makes a point during a meeting of her VSLA group
© CARE Kenya/Job Mainye
