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Posted on July 15, 2016
By Jacob Kobzi, Mifos Initiative

The week is almost over but the Mifos Innovation team is still hard at work in Ecuador.
The day started with the Innovation Team meeting with an organization that oversees a network of cooperatives. The biggest takeaway from the meeting was that the organization sees the value that the Mifo’s Financial Inclusion Cloud can bring to their network of financial institutions.
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Posted on June 16, 2016

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Posted on May 31, 2016
By Meaghan Bogart

Throughout this election year, news outlets are constantly pushing out political commentary, debates and advertisements, and the heated rhetoric around immigration is at an all-time high. It is undeniable that Latin American migrants play a role in the U.S. economy and our society as a whole. But why are people from across Latin America choosing to leave their families in order to travel to a country that does not always welcome them with open arms?
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