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ANDE Conference Live: Dr. Rajiv Shah’s Opening Plenary
The 2010 Annual ANDE Conference kicked off with Dr. Rajiv Shah, current USAID Administrator, giving the opening plenary, outlining new focuses for USAID in the small and growing business field.
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Countdown to SOCAP: Beyond Innovation
Root Capital is pioneering a model for value chain finance and agricultural lending, mainly in the sustainable natural products space. In a pre-SOCAP conversation, founder William Foote shared with us what’s next for the organization.
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Countdown to SOCAP: Metrics, Environmental Performance and Impact Investing
Two months ago, New Ventures and E+Co launched its Global Green! seminar in Costa Rica, a joint effort to help emerging market entrepreneurs improve and capitalize on their environmental performance. Next week we’ll share what we learned with the audience at SOCAP.
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Countdown to SOCAP: The Fastest Growing Industries and Markets
This post, featuring a conversation with Dalberg’s Shashi Buluswar, is the first in a series that will leading to and cover the third Social Capital Markets Conference - SOCAP. NextBillion is a media partner to SOCAP.
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Power to the People: New Report on Energy for the Base of the Pyramid
WRI’s new report, Power to the People, produced in collaboration with the Center for Development Finance-IFMR, looks at the market potential for clean and renewable energy in rural India. The following interview, with co-Author and NextBillion Staff Writer Saurabh Lall, explores the study’s main insights and conclusions.
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Guest Post: Research on Inclusive Markets – Anyone Up for Academic Leapfrogging?
Poverty has long been a blind spot in management research. Even research on emerging economies like China, India or Brazil - that house a significant share of the world’s poor - has evaded the topic. Recent publications on business and poverty could change this - and provide a roadmap for researchers attempting to bring more rigor to the field.
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Friday Roundup – 9/24/10: New York City on Poverty
For anyone even remotely interested in development, it was also an interesting week. Here’s a selection of relevant links from the week behind us, coming from several of the meetings and gatherings that took place just a few blocks downtown.
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Wantrapreneur: Villgro’s Search for Societal Wealth Creators
In order to identify and accelerate the creation of social ventures, Villgro is promoting "Wantrapreneur", a business plan competition to encourage the process of creating and evaluating new ventures that have a central focus on the creation of social value.
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