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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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(With Video) The BoP Summit: Set for Oct. 21, the 3-day event takes stock and charts a course
The “BoP Summit 2013: Creating an Action Agenda for the Next Decade” at the University of Michigan (www.bop2013.org), is set for October 21-23 here in Ann Arbor. While there’s lots to celebrate about inclusive business, there’s also plenty to question, ponder and reconsider - particularly barriers to success and the inability to replicate successful business models across industries and geographies.
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Impact Investors (Should Be) Risk Takers: Does impact investing have a lower risk tolerance than venture capital?
While trying to solve the impact investing “do good while doing well” paradox we have landed in a risk adverse approach. Finding the solution to this paradox requires innovation and innovation implies risk taking. But can we call ourselves impact investors if we are not willing to take the necessary risks required to innovate?
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Measure for Measure: Is the phrase ‘Base of the Pyramid’ off base?
Today we’re launching a new series of posts, Measure for Measure, which focuses on trends, tools and viewpoints in impact measurement. In the series launch, Acumen’s Head of Impact Tom Adams thinks we need a new way to measure poverty, beyond the "BoP" catch-all.
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“If you teach a man to fish…”: The NSDC’s efforts to provide job training to 150 million Indians – part 2
We’ve all heard the proverb about how teaching a man to fish will feed him for a lifetime. But how can a country provide modern job skills to hundreds of millions? India’s National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) may have found a way. In part 2 of this Q&A, Dipra Mukhopadhyay, a member of the NSDC’s core investment team, discusses its efforts to train 150 million Indians, including the country’s poorest communities.
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NexThought Monday: What business can teach philanthropists
My company, Geneva Global, was founded by an international investment group looking for professional philanthropic advice that met investment banking standards. Given our DNA, I believe there are three business traits that would make philanthropists more effective.
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Body Parts on Demand: Will 3D printing spark the next revolution in BoP health care? (Bi-Weekly Checkup, 6/22/13)
They can make everything from guitars to custom-designed bikinis. Now 3D printers are being used to produce complex medical devices. Could 3D printing technology create a new manufacturing model at the BoP, with local products produced for local needs? We discuss the possibility in NextBillion Health Care’s Bi-Weekly Checkup.
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Corporate Aid or Colonialism?: The G8’s New Alliance sparks debate over big businesses’ role in fighting poverty
The New Alliance, started by the G8 last year, has the ambitious goal of lifting 50 million people out of poverty. It has mobilized billions of dollars in private sector investment in African agriculture. But that investment comes with a few strings attached.
Is it a worthy effort to strengthen weak value chains, or a profit grab that marginalizes smallholder farmers?- Categories
- Agriculture
