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What´s Holding Back the BoP Housing Sector?: The need is clear – so where’s the investment?
UN statistics indicate that some 67 new low-income housing units are needed somewhere in the world every minute. BoP housing and related infrastructure is massively ripe for investment, with an estimated profit potential of between US$ 177 and US$ 648 billion up to the year 2020. So why hasn’t this investment happened? Unfortunately, there are a number of reasons.
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- Investing
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- housing, infrastructure
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No Fortune at the BoP?: Globe-trotting economist Paul Clyde on the promise (and limitations) of health care delivery models that serve the poor – Part 1
Paul Clyde is an itinerant economic adviser and faculty member at the University of Michigan. He has advised or run over 40 projects in 10 emerging markets, helping develop financially sustainable health care delivery models. In part 1 of this Q&A, he talks about the BoP health care sector’s evolution, and gives a frank assessment of existing business models.
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- Environment, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health
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A Growing Network of Global Health Innovators: CHMI announces new partners and strategy to scale up cutting-edge health care solutions
The Center for Health Market Innovations (CMHI) recently expanded its network of regional partners. These organizations are working to catalyze the scale-up, replication and improvement of innovative health care delivery programs in countries like Nigeria, India, Pakistan, the Philippines and Kenya. CHMI invites the NextBillion community to connect with these partners.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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‘Connectivity is Productivity’: Iqbal Quadir at the BASE II Forum on tech for transformation
The recent BASE Forum featured several distinguished panelists, including Iqbal Quadir, founder and director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT, and founder of Grameenphone. He discussed how technology can support the BoP’s capacity to improve their own work productivity and daily lives.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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NexThought Monday – Want to Help Africa’s SMEs? Improve Their Internet Access: A new report from Dalberg highlights the Web’s huge social and economic potential
As part of Dalberg’s Impact of the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Study, a recent survey by Dalberg Research shows just how important the Internet is to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Africa. African policymakers–already concerned with SMEs as an engine for growth and job creation–may do well to prioritize Internet access and use among SMEs.
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- Education, Technology, Telecommunications
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Does Your City Have What it Takes? : Sandbox Network launches expansion campaign
Founded in 2009 by entrepreneurs from Switzerland and Germany — including current CEO Nico Luchsinger — Sandbox presently has more than 800 members in 25 hubs spanning four continents. Now the New York City-based network is looking for cities around the world eager to become part of a global entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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- Social Enterprise
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Accelerating What Works to Fix What Doesn’t: How the IPIHD’s free programs can help health care innovators
People are fundamentally wired to focus on what is broken. But when addressing ineffective health care systems, it often makes sense to ask what IS working and how it can be replicated. In that spirit, the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery is seeking health care innovators to join its network and make use of its free programs.
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- Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health, research
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NextThought Monday: Barefoot Power looks to reduce the cost of living off-grid in India
Founded in 2005, Barefoot Power has created affordable lighting and phone charging products tailored for low-income markets – including 20 developing countries across Africa, America and, more recently, China. To ensure that Barefoot Power can rapidly expand within the focus states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh by mid-2013 and make safe and affordable energy options more accessible, the company is focused on a two-pronged distribution approach.
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- Energy
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