Articles by Kyle Poplin
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Friday
June 17
2016Scott Anderson / James Militzer / Kyle Poplin
Roundup: Jo Cox remembered, investors collaborate and Kenyan cabs
In this week's extensive Roundup, we remember Jo Cox, who was an extraordinary global health advocate; look at the leverage held by smallholder farmers; and wonder if Littlecabs will end up being a big headache for Uber in Kenya. Plus plenty more.
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Friday
June 10
2016Kyle Poplin / James Militzer / Scott Anderson
Roundup: A $100 Million Idea, Reproductive Rights Redux and an Inverting Poverty Pyramid
In this week's Roundup, we look at MacArthur Foundation's $100 million grant to “a single proposal designed to help solve a critical problem affecting people, places or the planet," the impact Zika is having on family planning and more evidence the "Bottom Billions" are moving up.
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Guest Articles
Thursday
June 9
2016The Podcast: When Life Hits You In the Head With a Brick …
Max Chinnah, CEO and co-founder of Terraoak Inc., is from Nigeria, where his grandmother died from complications related to breathing air polluted by cookstoves. He's convinced his Genesys Cooker can improve the lives of millions around the world.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Guest Articles
Friday
June 3
2016Scott Anderson / James Militzer / Kyle Poplin
(Reinvented) Weekly Roundup: Cashless Betting, Good Pod, Beautiful Resolve
NextBillion is changing the format of our Weekly Roundup. Rather than more lengthy, editor-written analysis of weekly events, on Fridays we’ll curate a number of news articles, announcements, tweets, videos and other media that captured our attention over the course of the week.
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- Social Enterprise
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Friday
May 20
2016Weekly Roundup: It’s a New World in Global Health … If You Act On the Old Study
That 25-year, quarter-billion-dollar, 1,000-scientist effort to catalog death and disability in nearly 200 countries – the Global Burden of Disease study – is still out there and relevant, even though not every country’s bought in. The countries that are buying in, however, have reaped rewards.
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- Health Care
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Friday
May 13
2016Scott Anderson / Kyle Poplin / James Militzer
UPDATED Weekly Roundup: Haiti’s Peanut Pushback, Moms Vs. Markets and Should Google’s Payday Ban Apply to Microfinance?
This week in the roundup we consider the pushback of Haitian farmers and NGOs against the U.S. government's mass peanut donation, how marketers might be undermining mothers who breastfeed, and whether Google's ban on ads from payday lenders could justifiably be applied to microfinance.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Interviews
Thursday
May 5
2016Finding a Sanitation Destiny: ‘I Am Supposed to Design Toilets’
Jasmine Burton of Wish for WASH: "Although we are still very much researching and iterating our design, (the) SafiChoo (toilet) is innovative because it seeks to incorporate human-centered design and community-driven solutions to best improve the user experience in all parts of the market (from manufacturing to shipping to distributing to customers to end users)."
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- Health Care, WASH
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- sanitation
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Friday
April 29
2016Scott Anderson / Kyle Poplin / James Militzer
Roundup: Chicago’s $100M Impact Test, World Bank Relevance Check – And Defending ‘White Savior Barbie’
Something big happened in Chicago this week, as the Chicago Community Trust, MacArthur Foundation and Calvert Foundation announced their plans to funnel $100 million in impact investments to nonprofits and social enterprises in the Windy City through the Benefit Chicago project. Our editors discuss that development, wonder about the evolving role of the World Bank, and defend "White Savior Barbie" in this roundup.
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- impact investing