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Understanding Income Inequality

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We need to do a better job of understanding social needs, both to improve our programs and measure their ultimate impact. I asked her what kind of insights could be gleaned by an anti-poverty group, say in Uruguay (to pick one country out of 50), accessing the LIS. employment attachment and educational level of adult household members?

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4 ways to ensure Latin America’s growing pot of capital drives long-term growth

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However, most AI programs and documents are written in English, in which Latin America has a 56% proficiency rate. In response, governments should push bilingual policies in both schools and businesses, offering greater funding and hiring support for courses like English for IT professionals.

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Marco Financial raises $82M in debt, equity seed round to support small Latin American exporters

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Spradling through the Antler accelerator, a Singapore- and New York-based early-stage investment and advisory services program that connects entrepreneurs and tech operators to launch new businesses. government, most recently serving as managing director for the U.S. Teichman joins after 11 years with the U.S.

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a16z, NFX back Latitud’s effort to become ‘the operating system for every venture-backed company in LatAm’

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government because it was a corporation in the U.S. Fast-forward to the beginning of the pandemic in 2020; Requarth teamed up with DuoLingo’s former VP of growth Gina Gotthilf and Yuri Danilchenko, former CTO of Brazilian startup Escale, to found what they describe as a “tech entrepreneurship program” in Latin America.

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Fintech Roundup: Goldman Sachs buys another startup, Fast hits a speed bump and BaaS gets hotter

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.” In February, NPR published an article noting that Holland’s previous venture was embroiled “in a multimillion-dollar billing dispute with the Australian state government over towing and impounding fees that led to the startup’s liquidation in 2018.” billion ($2.15 billion at the time of the deal).

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