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Incubating Clean Energy Technologies for the BoP
Yet, there I was, waiting in front of an office building on a deserted Mumbai street, when the cab pulled up to take me to ARTI (the Appropriate Rural Technology Institute), a registered scientific society established to develop and transfer innovative, sustainable technologies to rural people for income generation...
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Cornell Global Forum Kicks Off
This afternoon in New York, the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University convened its inaugural Global Forum on Sustainable Enterprise in New York City. One hundred practitioners will participate as delegates for two days of working sessions.
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Understanding the BoP Community as a Social Movement
The blossoming of the BoP community as a social movement has empowered entrepreneurs and fertilized the ground for radical innovations in developing countries. To better understand the BoP social movement and to pinpoint the tasks still pending we should put it in perspective with other social movements which have also created or destroyed markets.
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How Do We Build the Inclusive Business Partnerships for the Future?
Recent reports provide examples of fruitful partnerships that lead to successful market-based approaches to fighting poverty. How did these partnerships get started? How does a corporation arrive in a BoP community and establish relationships with local actors? When will we move from advice to research and toolkits to establish partnerships?
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Educating in Unforgiving Times
The cynical view of Corporate Social Responsibility is that large corporations do it just to make themselves look good, or to help in some way to improve revenue growth or the bottom line. The opposite is what you read on the company CSR reports or web pages. But used strategically, CSR can improve a company’s long-term growth while doing good.
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A Visit to IDEAAS: Clean Energy Solutions for Brazil’s Poor
A few weeks I had a great opportunity to visit Brazil, as part of a research project currently underway at New Ventures, aimed at benchmarking clean energy solutions for the base of the pyramid.
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Interview: Frank Pichel and Joseph Okyere on Unlocking Dead Capital through Land Titling
The lack of access to land and housing property rights has been deemed as one of the main obstacles to wealth creation and economic growth amongst low income populations. This is the area of focus of a project currently piloted by various private sector actors in Ghana...
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Reliable Access to Energy in Slums: There’s Hope
For the past months I’ve been researching market-based solutions for access to energy for low-income communities. I’ve come across everything from efficient cookstoves to rural cooperatives that have the potential to replicate and serve billions of people. Most exciting for me are the models that connect slum residents to power and gas grids...
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