Articles by David Lehr
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Wednesday
July 8
2009Making Better Investments at the Base of the Pyramid: A Framework for Impact Assessment
In "Making Better Investments at the Base of the Pyramid," Ted London of the University of Michigan points out that even though most ventures serving the world’s poor have feel-good stories and data on milestones, most of them lack a systematic way to assess how well they’re reaching the people they set out to serve.
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Wednesday
April 29
2009Revisiting the Avon Lady Poverty Reduction Debate
Oxford business professor Linda Scott is trying to verify something that many BoP business models are based on: the idea that becoming an Avon lady could help poor women in developing nations get out poverty. Her research in South Africa, which is not yet complete, indicates the Avon model might be what some need to get out of poverty...
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Monday
March 16
2009Mobile Health for Development: Challenges and Opportunities
The Rockefeller Foundation, UN Foundation and Vodafone Foundation recently announced the formation of the mHealth Alliance to facilitate innovation and maximize impact in the field of mobile health (mHealth), which has drawn attention to this area. The Alliance will expand the mHealth initiatives of multiple organizations around the world.
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Saturday
February 28
2009Agora Partnerships and Heroes of Development
As I learn more about entrepreneurship and job creation efforts I am increasingly convinced that we need a broader range of tools than either microcredit or social venture funding typically offer.? Recently Agora Partnerships caught my eye when they and their founder Ben Powell were awarded a Draper Richards Fellowship.
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Friday
January 9
2009Job: Grameen Technology Center, Ghana Project Manager
Position: Project ManagerLocation: Ghana ?? AccraTime frame: Full Time, Starting January 25, 2009 Organization: Grameen Technology Center.? The Grameen Technology Center, an initiative of the Grameen Foundation, focuses on technology that makes microfinance operations more efficient,...
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Guest Articles
Thursday
January 8
2009Sustainable Cooking Stoves
Energy poverty in the developing world is a complex and ongoing problem with serious impacts on health, economic growth, and the overall environment.? The impact on the poor is particularly felt in their day to day needs for cooking fuel ? much of it coming from either oil or gas - or from...
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- clean cooking
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Monday
November 3
2008Roberts Enterprise Development Fund: Creating Jobs for Communities Facing Significant Barriers to E
"If people don’t have a job, they don’t have hope. And if you don’t have hope, what do you really have?” (George Roberts of Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts & Co., the founder of REDF)Recently Jocelyn Wyatt and I were fortunate to have Carla Javits, the President of REDF...
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Thursday
October 30
2008Learning about Market-Based Approaches for Reducing Poverty
This fall,?Jocelyn Wyatt and I?taught a seven week course at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, which?spanned the worlds of philanthropy, business and many of the way points in between. We were both Acumen Fund Fellows (class of 2007) and as?part of our post-Fellowship goals each...
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