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Hans Rosling: “Debunking Third World Myths Through Data”
A good friend directed me to the Hans Rosling?s TED talk. I found this video particularly interesting because the way Rosling presents data is very dynamic and viewer-friendly. The animated visualization of data makes it is easier to draw conclusions and see trends. That said, I want to...
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Announcement: Second Edition of Stuart Hart?s Capitalism at Crossroads Released
NextBillion’s good friend and colleague Stuart Hart - of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University and Enterprise for a Sustainable World - has recently released the second edition of his book, “Capitalism at Crossroads.” The newly revised edition includes...
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Rising Ventures Investor Profile: Axial Par
New Ventures interviews Axial Par director Paulo Bellotti about his firm’s unique small enterprise development model and the key to successful SME investment. PDF Version of this article The tagline for Brazilian venture capital firm AxialPar is “Investing in Sustainability,"...
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BOP Innovation Helps Kids Breathe
In high-income countries, asthma is usually a nuisance, but among the rural BOP, asthma can be a costly and deadly disease for victims who are unable to access treatment locally.Eric Green, a medical student at Stanford University, traveled to Mexico last year as part of a group from his...
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Disruptive Innovations in Health Care ? Vote Now!
The “Disruptive Innovations in Health and Health Care” competition from Ashoka?s Changemakers - that Julia blogged about in July - is now in its last stage: the voting! There were about 300 projects that participated in this competition, ranging from microinsurance...
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GlobalGiving Decision Markets: Looking for Speculators!
GlobalGiving, the online charity marketplace that we’ve blogged about before, has launched a new “prediction market” online. They are looking for a “master speculators.” Much like eBay’s approach to online commerce, GlobalGiving is changing the way people give. We...
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A New Ashoka Fellow Seeks to Foster Green Markets in Mexico
After reestablishing New Ventures Mexico as its own independent organization, growing the program to incorporate a broader range of enterprise development services and creating a flashy new site worthy of a Webby (in our opinion), we at New Ventures global would have thought country director...
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“The Faces of Exclusion” Competition Winner Announced
The Inter American Development Bank (IADB) recently hosted a video competition called “The Faces of Exclusion.” The purpose of this competition was to expand beyond traditional research techniques in socio-economics; the IADB was particularly looking for documentary films that...
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