Access to formal financial services is limited for several reasons including cost, proximity, social barriers, education, and appropriateness of product design.
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It sounds Utopian, but it is nothing more than the breaking down of social barriers created by sheets of metal and glass and four wheels.
It began when Americans no longer saw their own disabilities as a barrier to their success, and set out to tear down the physical and social barriers that were.
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And without privacy, sharing a single shower, many of the men had lost their sense of the normal social barriers - they were around each other continuously, using the toilets, speaking to loved ones on the phone, and, presumably, indulging in other physical functions.
Although land can be relatively abundant, suburbs present other social and economic barriers that limit competition.
However, in the last 30 years, a handful of businesswomen in India, including Lalita Gupte, Kalpana Morparia, Anu Aga, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Simone Tata, have quietly broken through the barriers of social conformity--both at home and in the workplace--to become successful entrepreneurs and professionals.
Labour's peers, Lord Warner, a former health minister, and Lord Patel of Bradford, have amendments down on the holy grail of health policy: the integration of health with social care - removing the barriers that keep people in expensive hospital beds, when they may be better looked-after in care homes.
But by removing barriers to collaboration, social entrepreneurs will have much greater success in converting awareness and ambition into action.
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In addition, the solution can increase the discovery and sharing of video content and optimize engagement through social and mobile by eliminating the barriers to view content directly on Twitter.
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This conference aims to examine the gaps and barriers in integrating the social dimensions into green economy decision-making and to promote the role of social policy and research in addressing current and emerging challenges.
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Although LinkedIn currently has a unique advantage of mixing social networking with recruitment services, the barriers to entry are low.
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It will join the other work being done to identify and remediate social, cultural, physical and legal barriers to uplift from poverty.
Increasingly, companies are turning to enterprise social networks to overcome information silos and communication barriers.
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Isolated office space and individualized workloads are not conducive to learning about ones peers, and are barriers to developing office-wide social cohesion.
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Among companies we've surveyed, fully half of all interactions are constrained by one of five barriers: physical, technical, social or cultural, contextual and temporal.
Additionally, some people use the same passwords for several of the online security barriers in their lives, like social networking sites, email accounts and online banking.
Characteristics of the community include income and literacy barriers coupled with high unemployment and related social concerns.
Social media tools are particularly adept a knocking down barriers between people and departments, just what the doctor ordered for this profession.
Bit by bit, the Information Age is chipping away at the barriers -- economic, political and social -- that once kept people locked in and ideas locked out.
There will be plenty more IPOs coming up of companies with greater profitability and higher barriers to entry (e.g. social networks with hundreds of millions of followers).
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Barriers to entry are very low in public social networks.
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Some also expressed concerns about whether they would be able to open accounts if they didn't have documentation like Social Security numbers, as well as concerns over language barriers.
Women In Fatherhood, Inc. (WIFI) is a social justice organization working to break down structural and relational barriers preventing fathers and men from positively contributing to families and communities.
One of the biggest barriers has been the lack of well-enforced social security and health-care provisions.
Countless girls are held home from school, and girls and women continue to face barriers at nearly every rung of the economic, social and political ladders.
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This conference will bring together policy-relevant lessons from recent research by UNRISD, UNESCO and ISSC, and focuses on the existing gaps and barriers that need to be overcome in order for the social dimensions of green economy to be better integrated into green economy decision-making.
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The great virtue of social technologies, say their boosters, is that they break down the barriers between companies and their customers.
Zynga also operates in a market where barriers to entry are becoming significantly higher as the quality of social games continues to increase, said Tom Taulli, an independent IPO expert.
When Abdullah Badawi stepped down as prime minister in 2009 after a poor showing in elections the previous year, Mr. Najib took the position and quickly rebranded the premiership, loosening some of Malaysia's race barriers and opting for a presidential style that focused heavily on social media such as Facebook and Twitter.
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