Articles by Kyle Poplin
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Friday
April 22
2016Weekly Roundup: Healthy Debate and Unhealthy Economics at Unite for Sight
I went to a global health conference last weekend and an economics lesson broke out. OK, that’s a bit of an oversimplification. A lot more than economics was discussed at the 13th annual Unite for Sight Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale University. It’s just that as I scurried from session to session around the campus, I kept hearing about the scarcity and/or misapplication of money.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- public health
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Guest Articles
Wednesday
April 13
2016Sir Fazle Hasan Abed of BRAC: Poverty’s About Deprivation, and It’s Fixable (Video)
“Oppressed people have got their own way of thinking about life,” said Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of BRAC, “and if you can somehow mobilize them, make them critically aware of their own condition, and get them to act on their own behalf, make them an actor in their own history, then things become much easier.” Watch our in-depth interview.
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- Social Enterprise
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Thursday
April 7
2016More Giant Rats On the Way. And That’s a Good Thing.
APOPO trains African giant pouched rats to sniff out tuberculosis (TB), a top infectious disease killer worldwide even though it’s curable and preventable. The program has proven successful in screening for TB in crowded prisons in Tanzania and Mozambique, and APOPO hopes to roll it out in at least six countries by 2020.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Friday
April 1
2016Scott Anderson / Kyle Poplin / James Militzer
Weekly Roundup: A New Africa Accelerator – What Moms, Kids and GE Get Out of It
This week, GE and Santa Clara University’s Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship announced the healthymagination Mother & Child Initiative, which intends to help social enterprises refine their business plans, manage their human capital and prepare for growth. We discuss this program, the value of old-school development solutions, and (potentially) big news from Facebook in this roundup.
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- Investing, Technology
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Guest Articles
Friday
March 25
2016James Militzer / Kyle Poplin / Scott Anderson
Weekly Roundup: Social Enterprise Meets Reality TV – Is That a Good Thing?
Today, 12 India-based social entrepreneurs will make TV history as the world’s first reality show about social enterprise and impact investing is broadcast on NDTV. The program is being billed as an attempt to mainstream the sector via a popular medium - a worthy goal, but is reality TV really the right way to achieve it? We discuss this question, and other developments in the social business space, in this roundup.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Friday
March 18
2016Weekly Roundup: Nano Lending Under the Microsope and A Bond to Fight Diabetes
This week Tigo announced it will launch collateral-free nano loans to customers through its Tigo Pesa mobile financial platform in Tanzania. The unsecured loans will average $10,000 Tanzanian shillings (US $5). Is this the lift "nano lending" needs? Plus, Israel begins a new social impact bond to fight diabetes, what it could mean for financing global health.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- mobile finance
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Friday
March 11
2016Kyle Poplin / James Militzer / Scott Anderson
Weekly Roundup: Obama Chases Bush’s Africa Legacy, Kenya’s Diaspora Leadership and Gray Ghost’s $60M Fund
It’s incongruous to many that the son of a Kenyan is widely perceived to have done less to help Africa than a predecessor best known for putting the U.S. in a bad war and a bad light in so many other places around the globe. Could the President’s Malaria Initiative help change those perceptions?
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- Health Care
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Guest Articles
Friday
March 4
2016Weekly Roundup: Uber, DriveU, Ola and the Greedy Sharing Economy in India
In a typically eventful week in social enterprise, the "social business" buzzword grew more obsolete, and we got a reminder of the many players eager to get their slice of the “sharing economy” - especially in India. Our editors discuss these developments in this roundup.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, Transportation