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Microloans Aren’t Just for Businesses Anymore: Increasingly they’re helping the poor meet basic needs
A more universal and basic approach for microloans to assist the more than 3 billion people who live on less than $2.50 a day is providing small loans to break up payments for large purchases.
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- Agriculture
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- infrastructure
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Innovations in Anesthesia: How Gradian Health Systems is making surgery safer at the BoP
Over 90 percent of the 5.8 million annual deaths from physical injury occur in low-income countries. Many of these deaths could be prevented with surgical treatment. But hospitals at the BoP lose power, on average, 18 times per month, making surgery difficult. Here’s how Gradian Health Systems is addressing this challenge.
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- Health Care
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Inside the Toolboxes : oikos UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy 2013
lot of toolboxes, guidebooks, and protocols have been written about how BoP business models should look and how to best implement them. But as two scholars who have led many of those efforts recently summarized: “corporate interest ... has dropped precipitously or migrated to the CSR (i.e., philanthropic) side of the business.” The new oikos UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy, in Istanbul this September, seeks to uncover some of the underlying dynamics with which managers overcome these challenges.
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- Education
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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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The New Cities Summit: Putting the ‘human’ back into our discussions on the 21st century city
A year has flown by since our inaugural global summit on the future of cities, the New Cities Summit, which we held in May 2012 in Paris. Since then, the connections we’d hoped to foster by inviting such a wide set of prominent actors from all aspects of urban life flourished in ways we could not have predicted – in unexpected combinations and places. This year, we’re hosting our summit in São Paulo, Brazil.
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- infrastructure
