Impatient Optimists
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Jake Kendall

Title Program Officer, Financial Services for the Poor
Organization Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Jake Kendall is a Program Officer on the Financial Services for the Poor team at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, working with the Policy and Research initiative.

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The Global Findex Gives Answers on Financial Inclusion

June 04, 2012 / Jake Kendall

The Global Findex is a new database of financial inclusion indicators based on nationally representative surveys of more than 150,000 adults in 148 economies. But what does the data tell us?

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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