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The Social Angel Movement in India : How it’s building the impact ecosystem
Ultimately, when making an investment, angels should really be looking at the entrepreneur – does he or she lead with a moral imagination? Even if financial returns are lower, there is often more gratification in seeing diversified risk spread through communities in the form of continuing social impact, be it through building sustainable ecosystems, creating jobs for the BoP or fuelling innovative business models across numerous sectors.
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- Impact Assessment
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Keeping Up with the Indians: Exploring emerging practices in a health care innovation powerhouse
Extending health services to the 350 million living below the poverty line in India is no easy task. But due to necessity and ingenuity, the country has become a vibrant testing ground for new solutions that help meet the needs of its large, diverse population. In this post from CHMI, Aarthi Rao explores some of the approaches that have made India a powerhouse in health care innovation.
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- Health Care
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Building Flexible, Inclusive and Dynamic Cities: Reflections from the 2013 New Cities Summit in São Paulo – WITH VIDEO
The 2013 New Cities Summit, held last month in São Paulo, attracted urban leaders, academics, global CEOs, technology experts and up-and-coming innovators to a discussion of how to create a "Human City," the theme for this year’s event. This overview covers the highlights - including several videos from the summit.
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- Transportation
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A Bank for Banks: Indonesia’s Bank Andara grows micro-businesses and turns a profit
Indonesia has millions of micro-entrepreneurs and thousands of micro-finance institutions. But most lack capital and established systems, and can only provide bare-bones services to small client bases. Enter Bank Andara, a wholesale commercial bank exclusively dedicated to serving the Indonesian micro-finance sector.
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- Uncategorized
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No Fortune at the BoP?: Economist Paul Clyde on the challenges of health care delivery in emerging markets – Part 2
Paul Clyde is an itinerant economic adviser and a 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 2 of this Q&A, he discusses the primary challenges BoP countries face in health care delivery, and how their health systems’ evolution could reshape their economies.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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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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Powering the BoP: Micro-grid payment and metering solutions offer promise in India
Commercial micro-grid enterprises that provide reliable power supply are gradually building trust among low-income consumers in India. Mechanisms to enhance payment and collection are a big component of this effort. Sowmya Suryanarayanan of Intellecap’s Research Team explores the challenges these companies face, and how they overcome them.
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- Energy, Environment
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- infrastructure
