Articles by Oscar Abello
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Monday
July 29
2013NexThought Monday – Doing Good Responsibly: Through stop motion video, UC Berkeley Ananya Roy critiques BoP capitalism
Hardly a day goes by without a new infographic related to some aspect of global poverty. But these graphic video narratives do the same for powerful, pertinent questions about poverty and development: Who do we view as poor? Professor Ananya Roy at the University of California at Berkeley, takes us on that journey too.
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- Education
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Guest Articles
Wednesday
January 30
2013Where are the poor? : Lessons to share from BRAC’s poverty ‘graduation program’
In the countries that have some incarnation of the “graduation program” targeting the ultra-poor that BRAC began first experimenting with in the 1990s, communities themselves are also grappling with the question: Where are the poor? It’s a question that large scale aid agencies, impact investors, social enterprises, multinational companies and others ask on a regular basis. So, we thought those stakeholders and others would benefit from learning a bit more about our process.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Tuesday
September 11
2012Get Your Corporate Governance Groove On: Why social entrepreneurs need get in step with reality
You started out with just an idea for a social enterprise, and you’ve worked hard to get the right pieces in place to put it into action. Who’s going to be your CEO? If you’re not ready for that question yet, you should be. You may think the answer is obvious: You. Guess again.
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- Investing
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Guest Articles
Monday
April 30
2012NexThought Monday: Complexity is the New Black
NYT columnist David Brooks recently called on social enterprise types to take a dose of realism. I argue it’s time to accept full responsibility for changing politics as part of social impact. If in attempting to improve some economic or social aspect of people’s lives we aren’t also improving their political standing and the rule of law, any economic or social impact remains temporary.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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Tuesday
January 3
2012Best Ideas of 2011: Storytelling and Cultivating the New Storytellers
Even if it’s not our own organizations or projects getting coverage, to see others in global development gaining even the tiniest measure of fame can be inspiring, or at least may light a competitive fire under our feet. Think of how big a boost microfinance got from 2006’s Nobel Peace Prize going to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank.
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- Impact Assessment
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Guest Articles
Wednesday
October 19
2011What Global Development Needs to Make an iPhone? Start With Storytelling
Esther Duflo. Abhijit Bhanerjee. Dean Karlan. These are household names in global development thanks to their leadership for more evidence-based project design and implementation. Here’s another name: Marc Maxson, a consultant with GlobalGiving who helped create and implement its Storytelling Project, which goes beyond eliminating selection bias.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Wednesday
August 31
20115 Things Global Development Can Learn From Stand-Up Comedy
Early in his stand-up comedy career, Steve Martin started jotting down notes after each of his performances, evaluating what worked, what to tweak and what to toss. Fast Company’s Co.Design blog posted titled ’8 things stand-up comedy teaches us about innovation.’ In the same spirit, here’s 5 things stand-up can teach us about global development.
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- Impact Assessment
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Monday
July 11
2011NexThought Monday: How to Eat Your Chocolate and Advance Development, Too
According to Global Financial Integrity, developing countries lost billions per year from 2000 to 2008 in money that is illegally earned, transferred or utilized, with a large portion coming from conflict cocoa. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a way to stop or limit funding conflict while eating chocolate too? Well, there is.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment