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Can You Really Make a Fortune in Bop Health Care? An Interview With Paul Polak
Paul Polak has dedicated his life to promoting business solutions to global poverty. He believes there’s a fortune to be made in "radically affordable" products marketed to BoP customers. But does his approach work with the complexities of health care? And is for-profit business an ethical way of providing products that people literally can’t live without?
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Capturing the Gains: Improving the lives of workers and producers through global value chains
The importance of global value chains to the lives of millions of poor people cannot be ignored. Over US$2 trillion sales in manufacturing and services are now conducted through global value chains - much more if agrofood is included. Lead firms coordinate their value chains, linking activities from production, through distribution and logistics to retail. They provide jobs and incomes for many millions of workers and small-scale producers.
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- employment, supply chains
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Creating a Sense of Place By Investing Locally: Strategies for rebuilding community wealth in the U.S., globally
As more and more impact industry leaders think about how to invest locally, and as more people become interested in opportunities to do so, the impact sector has to come up with resources to educate people. It also must offer them opportunities to invest, whether through platforms such as Microplace or through Direct Public Offerings (DPOs)
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TEDxSF: 7 Billion Well: Why entrepreneurs hold the key to health care gains
We’ve made incredible progress with some major issues like polio and AIDS/HIV, and seen remarkable progress on issues like maternal health care and diarrheal disease. But I’ve surrendered to the fact that I, and even my organization, do not have the answers to these big challenges. But we know people who do: Entrepreneurs.
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Behind the Lens: The 2013 GSBN MBA Challenge Video Contest: For 2013, the contest is no longer just for MBAs
The winner of the 2012 Global Business School Network MBA Challenge Video Contest was a group from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College (USA). The MBA Challenge asked business school students: Can business education change the world? One of the winning team members, Jacqueline Stein (MBA ’13), shares the project that inspired their video.
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- Education
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Announcing NextBillion Health Care: The new blog focuses on private and public solutions
Next week NextBillion.net will launch a new sub-blog, NextBillion Health Care, which will address the myriad challenges and solutions in delivering health care to the BoP. The blog will focus on the best practices of social enterprises, health practitioners, large health systems, NGOs and multinational players, such as drug companies, supply chain systems and technology developers. It will also focus on public policy solutions for improving health outcomes for low-income people.
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- Education, Health Care
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NexThought Monday: Philippine Life Insurers Find Runaway Success in MFI Partnerships
It’s taken 40 years of experimentation, but in the Philippines, a unique business model has found a way to sell life insurance hand over fist to poor people. The country’s "mutual benefit associations," a study released last month shows, have soared in popularity and now insure 7.5 million members.
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- partnerships
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There’s More to Measurement Than … Measuring : An Overview of the 2012 Social Finance Forum
As Arlene Dickinson of Venture Communications put it, when she considers impact in an investment she asks: “Is the entrepreneur really baking in, right from the very beginning, this triple bottom line mentality? Or are they bolting it on afterwards to appear like they are making a difference? ... If it’s bolted on, I’m not interested.” She was one of many experts taking part in the 2012 Social Finance Forum.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
