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Ignacio Mas

Ignacio Mas is Deputy Director of the Financial Services for the Poor initiative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Scale is not a myth; development successes can and do become widespread, with dramatic consequences. Improved seeds and fertilizers revolutionized agriculture in South Asia in the middle of the twentieth century, the...
Ignacio Mas

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