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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 16:13:42 -0500
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"Entrepreneurship doesn't mean you sit in a baby cart and lie there.
Entrepreneurship means you overcome odds."







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Inspiring, stunning, (un)surprising









Devex correspondent Catherine Cheney travelled with the former — and
possibly future — first daughter of the United States,
who spoke about the progress on efforts to halt cholera.
During her trip Cheney also caught up with Mark Gunton, CEO of the
Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, to talk about an emerging
trend in social entrepreneurship.

Earlier this week, we also shared the news about a stunning legal
decision that could be set to change the way the U.S.
Agency for International Development manages its debarment process.

Here are a three more of our insider reports, in case you've missed them:

"The case for health as a high-return investment." In this exclusive
interview, Mark Suzman, president of global policy, advocacy and
country programs at the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation, explains how the newly launched Global
Financing Facility can lower the cost of private sector engagement in
global health.

"Top donors to education in emergencies." Based on the latest figures
from the U.N.
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, donor funding
for education in emergencies totals $148.2 million.
Which donor gave the most?

"International consultants: Overpaid today, extinct tomorrow?"
Industry insiders across the globe told us that the use of consultants
from the "global
north" could decline as local experts in middle-income countries gain
more capacity.
Do you agree? What are you seeing on the ground?

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from Devex Impact editor Adva Saldinger about her trip to Benin with
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Numerous innovations have already been developed, but many barriers
remain to identifying and speeding up the spread of innovative
policies and practices.
Here are some of the essential elements to make that happen,
according to Results for Development Institute Managing Director Gina
Lagomarsino.

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Sounding off on Islamic finance







As stressed in last month's third International Financing for
Development conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, achieving the
forthcoming sustainable development goals will require support from
everyone, everywhere.

Islamic finance is seen not just as a huge source of cash to improve
the well-being of people in the developing world; it also presents a
great opportunity for financial inclusion.
In a recent conversation with Devex senior reporter Michael Igoe,
Mohammed Kroessin, head of the Islamic Microfinance Unit at Islamic
Relief Worldwide, shed light on the main actors, trends and issues
surrounding this much-untapped resource.

Some Devex readers opened up with their reservations about Islamic finance.

Reader David Lutes wrote that he was concerned with the "hypocritical
financial policies of leaders and countries who are Muslim and yet
provide financial support for groups who deny and shame Islam by their
terrorist activities and action."

"Until they condemn these groups and withdraw their financial
support," he said, "they deny their faith."

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and join the conversation about the issue.















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