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The Most Popular Posts of 2015: Which One Most Influenced You?
For the fourth year in a row, we're launching our Most Influential Post of the Year Contest – think of it as a listicle that you control. Below are the 12 most viewed articles on NB by month. Please read or re-read them and then vote for your favorite(s).
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NextBillion’s Most Popular and Most Shared Posts in the 4th Quarter of 2015
Our most-viewed and most-shared blog posts from the months of October, November and December explored the history and future of impact assessment, a randomized control trial around financial inclusion in Afghanistan and technology solutions for mitigating the youth jobs shortage.
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November 26
2015Thank You
It's Thanksgiving here in the U.S. And as we have in the past, we'd like to say thank you to our readers, our sponsors and our contributors. But this year we're especially thankful. Here's why.
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Tuesday
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November 17
2015The Most Popular Posts on NextBillion for September
Congratulations NextBillion contributors whose posts were the most popular in September. Below are the most viewed articles for the month as well as the most shared on social media. For each post, we’ve also added the “money quote” or the key paragraph or passage. A special thanks to these contributors as well as all NB submitters.
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Tuesday
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November 3
2015Welcome to the New NextBillion: As we celebrate 10 years online, we unveil a comprehensively redesigned website
Emerging economies – and the businesses that serve them – have come a long way in the past decade. And so has NextBillion. Today represents another key step in our evolution, as we unveil a comprehensively redesigned website.
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Friday
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October 30
2015Weekly Roundup 10-30-15: A New NextBillion is Coming Next Week
We hope you can forgive this very abbreviated weekly roundup. See, we’re sort of in the middle of something: A new website. Yes, next week we’re launching a redesigned and reimagined NextBillion.net. We’re excited about the possibilities and potential for the new site, which we will unveil in the coming days.
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When It Doesn’t Make Sense NOT to Invest: Tyler Norris of Kaiser Permanente on healthy communities and creating change
Tyler Norris, vice president of Total Health Partnerships at Kaiser Permanente, has spent more than three decades promoting better health, working in the public, private, nonprofit and civic sectors. A lot of his ideas are framed around the concept that healthy communities lead to healthy people and, therefore, community health should be a big part of impact investing.
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Tuesday
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October 13
2015NextBillion’s Most-Read, Most-Shared Posts for August: Building the perfect accelerator, new rules in Indian banking and what can be learned from Walmart’s relationship with USAID
How do you design a business accelerator that A) supports enterprises concentrating on new products and technologies designed for poor and low income people and B) engages investors – not just their money – but also their knowledge and mentors. One accelerator that hopes to do both was our most There’s no single formula, especially if this entrepreneurial assignment takes place in developing countries and across multiple industry sectors. Many smart people are studying what makes a good accelerator a great one. In fact, it’s the subject of a big research project called the the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative (GALI), a collaboration between the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs and Emory University.
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