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Sunday
December 14
2014Twitter Top Ten – 12/14/14: Our favorite tweets of the week
As we move one step closer to the end of the year, we’ve got a full slate of interesting tweets from the past week. They include some encouraging investments and new partnerships, important new research, and an intriguing reply from Safaricom to a recent NextBillion post. As always, if you see anything you like, be sure to retweet it.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Thursday
December 11
2014Champions of the Toilet: The best way to solve open defecation, the authors say, is to focus on demand, not construction
Access to toilets doesn’t always fix the problem of open defecation; in fact, partial coverage generates insignificant health benefits. Therefore, to address India’s malnutrition and health crisis, it is important to promote widespread adoption of toilet use.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health
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Thursday
December 4
2014The HBS-Accion Program on Strategic Leadership in Inclusive Finance is Accepting Applications
The 2015 Harvard Business School – Accion Program on Strategic Leadership in Inclusive Finance is now accepting applications for what will be another exceptional week of learning and exchange among world leaders in financial inclusion. The program will take place April 6-11, 2015 at the HBS campus in Boston, Massachusetts.
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- Education
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Sunday
November 23
2014Twitter Top Ten – 11/23/14: Our favorite tweets of the week
Here are our favorite Tweets of the week.
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- Uncategorized
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Sunday
November 16
2014Twitter Top Ten – 11/16/14: Our favorite tweets of the week
After a successful pilot period, our Twitter Top Ten makes its debut today as a permanent feature, with ten great tweets selected by NextBillion’s editorial staff. Thank you to everyone who’s provided feedback, encouragement and retweets to this feature - we’re glad the response has been so positive.
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- Health Care
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Sunday
November 9
2014Twitter Top Ten – 11-9-14: Our favorite tweets of the week
As our Twitter Top Ten "pilot feature" enters its fourth week, we’ve got a wide array of eye-catching tweets served up by NextBillion’s editorial staff.
This week’s selections cover everything from entrepreneur-focused TED talks to Facebook and Ebola - along with plenty of maps.- Categories
- Health Care
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Friday
November 7
2014Launching a Roadmap for the Base of the Pyramid Domain
The BoP Roadmap asks us to not only act for today, but to build for tomorrow, in order to truly achieve the promise of building a community of sustainable, scalable BoP enterprises focused on the alleviation of poverty. It is intended to create a stronger and more robust community that shares and learns together. As the old African proverb goes - “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together”.
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- Education
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Thursday
November 6
2014Top tweets from the BoP Roadmap Launch
Top tweets from the launch of the BoP Roadmap event.
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- Education