Articles by NextBillion Editor
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Sunday
May 24
2015Twitter Top Ten
It was a big week in the Twitterverse as POTUS – after six years in office – finally joined the fray. There were also plenty of Big Thoughts in the world covered by NextBillion, and we combed the scrolls to bring you some of the highlights.
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- Health Care
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Tuesday
May 19
2015Access and Equity in Reproductive Health: Ensuring equity through a total market approach
A "total market approach" is a strategy to empower all sectors, public and private, to more efficiently reach specific market segments, increasing the demand for family planning products. How to build a TMA and why the NGO PATH is pursuing the model with governments in low-income countries.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Sunday
May 17
2015Twitter Top Ten
This week brought a number of developments in global health, social enterprise and financial inclusion - some promising, some disturbing, and one bittersweet. As usual, we’ve highlighted a sample of the reaction to these events on Twitter, along with some long-form pieces that vividly describe some of the big challenges and small triumphs in the sectors we cover.
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- Education, Health Care
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Friday
May 15
2015SOCAP15 Open is … OPEN: Pitch your own session at the conference – and vote for your favorites
Set for Oct. 6-9 at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center, the SOCAP15 conference is a full four and a half months away. But preparations for the event are already well underway, including the recently (re)launched SOCAP Open, in which would-be presenters are invited to propose topics for their own sessions at the upcoming conference, and the public can vote for their favorites.
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- Uncategorized
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- impact investing
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Sunday
May 10
2015Twitter Top 10 – 5/10/15
It’s Mother’s Day in the U.S., and we’ve put together a selection of tweets that anyone’s mother would love (assuming she’s involved in social enterprise or global development). This week’s tweets include case studies for impact investors, disturbing development’s on India’s financial inclusion front, and our usual array of resources and insights (along with some interesting gift ideas for mom.)
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Sunday
May 3
2015Twitter Top Ten – 5-3-15: #Nepal
Normally we recognize ten tweets each Sunday that stood out to us from the week gone by. This week we’re doing 11 - including one on a point of hope for Nepal, one week after the devastating earthquake has taken so many lives and left so many more uncertain.
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- Uncategorized
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Sunday
April 26
2015Twitter Top 10
What do magic, humor, banking and libraries have in common? Not much, unless you’re talking about NextBillion’s weekly Top 10 tweets.
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- Health Care
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- product design
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Sunday
April 19
2015Twitter Top Ten
A new treasure trove of financial inclusion data.
A significant milestone for the B Corp movement.
And to coincide with tax day in the U.S., a handy guide on where to donate - and a thought-provoking post on the surprising way America’s tax system benefits the poor. These are just a few of the highlights of this week’s Twitter Top 10.- Categories
- Education, Energy, Environment, Health Care, Impact Assessment