Through a partnership between Mastercard, the U.S. Agency for International Development and Indian NGO Access Development Services, Renu – owners of a mom and pop convenience store in India – adopted QR-based digital payments at her kirana, giving digital-savvy customers more choice and boosting sales.
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For those not up to speed on understanding the relevance and importance of practicing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this teaching guide provided by the United Nations gives an excellent introduction and historical background on SDGs.
Key questions along with primary resources are provided to facilitate comprehension and engage people critically and clearly analyze the progress that has been made regarding this topic on a micro level.
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“Realizing a World Where Good Nutrition is Also Good Global Business” is the theme for our latest How She Went Global podcast, episode #24, with Julie Meyer, Founder and Co-CEO, Eat Well Global, a communication and consulting firm whose mission is to empower global change agents in food and nutrition.
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“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”
-Wilma Rudolph, U.S. track and field athlete
Happy Black History Month 2023 from all of us here at wegg®!
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Secretary Antony J. Blinken at the launch of the U.S. Strategy on Global Women’s Economic Security says:
Promoting women’s economic security is the right thing to do, but it’s also the smart and necessary thing to do. When everyone can contribute to their full potential,
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wegg® is inspired by a recent financial enfranchisement program developed by UN Women and a Congolese women’s civil society organization in which women in the Democratic Republic of Congo are assisted in registering their marketplace businesses. This effort called the “Support Project for the Development of Micro,
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“The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Today marks the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Read the transcript of his celebrated “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered on Aug.
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When a need for a product or service is exposed within a community, that disparity serves as an opportunity for an entrepreneur. In the case of the Brazilian village of Sitio Tambor, this was a group of aspiring entrepreneurs. A collective of mothers in this rural area of the eastern state of Paraíba discovered during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that it was becoming increasingly difficult to acquire larger and larger sizes of clothing for their growing children.
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“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Amidst the joy and chaos of the holiday season, it is beneficial for entrepreneurs, budding and experienced, to take time to draft their business plans and strategies for the year ahead.
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As inflation, supply-chain management, and the labor shortage have unfolded in the last several years, the world economy has rapidly shifted concurrently. All of these factors come to a head at one point: globalization. The globalization faction of business looks different now than ever before.
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