Articles by Abigail Keene-Babcock
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Thursday
October 11
2007Reflections on: ?World?s Slum Dwellers: More Like Us Than We Think?
Neal Peirce wrote an article following the Bellagio summit in August expressing great enthusiasm for the potential that grassroots collective action and micro financing tools have for producing changes in urban slums. The thing that struck me most about Peirce?s article was his emphasis on...
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Wednesday
October 10
2007Bednets and the Demise of Social Marketing – What the NY Times Missed
The New York Times ran an interesting but rather incomplete article yesterday, discussing the split over anti-malaria bednet distribution strategies in Africa and the apparent demise of ?social marketing? as a legitimate approach to reducing illness on a large scale. The article focuses on...
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- academia
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Thursday
September 27
2007Building the Ship As It Sails – Review of Innovations Journal
My entry into the world of BOP is shockingly recent ? in fact, I?ll even admit that I learned what the acronym stood for (Base or Bottom of the Pyramid ? referring to a very large and often marginalized part of the global income strata) as recently as June. This was after I left academia,...
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Tuesday
September 18
2007Jobs/Careers: Apply for the Acumen Fund Fellows Program
Each year, the Acumen Fund Fellows Program provides extraordinary young professionals with a unique opportunity to use their skills to effect real social change with our portfolio organizations in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, India and Pakistan, and to build lasting relationships with other...
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Friday
September 14
2007Jobs: Ashoka’s Full Economic Citizenship Initiative, Egypt
Ashoka?s Full Economic Citizenship initiative (FEC) aims to create pioneering large-scale solutions for low-income populations by harnessing the joint power of businesses and citizen sector organizations.Ashoka seeks a team of entrepreneurial individuals to launch a country-wide ?Housing...
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Guest Articles
Wednesday
September 12
2007Reflections on “India’s Rural Poor- Why Housing Isn’t Enough to Create Sustainable Communities”
Knowledge @ Wharton published an article on the living conditions of India?s rural poor, and on the shortcomings of central and state-funded government housing programs. The author, Abraham George, maintains that the primary reason for failure is an exclusive focus on providing low-cost...
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