Articles by Tilak Mishra
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Monday
May 23
2011Reflections on Sankalp 2011: The Curious Case of Economic vs. Social Value
A lack of information infrastructure was a sentiment that reverberated across most many of the panel discussions at Sankalp 2011. Investors, entrepreneurs, corporate heads and government officials noted that to be truly inclusive to low-income household clients, social enterprises and corporate firms must strengthen bottom-up market intelligence.
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Monday
February 21
2011Advancing Healthcare: Reaching Into Rural Pockets With A Sustainable Model
In much of the developing world, the poor lack access to adequate health care and are particularly vulnerable to the economic impacts of illness. To explore this situation, new models for health care provision are being innovated. This post explores opportunities for private health care initiatives to address unmet needs in remote and rural India.
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Thursday
September 23
2010Wantrapreneur: Villgro’s Search for Societal Wealth Creators
In order to identify and accelerate the creation of social ventures, Villgro is promoting "Wantrapreneur", a business plan competition to encourage the process of creating and evaluating new ventures that have a central focus on the creation of social value.
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Thursday
August 12
2010Buyer-backed Supply Chain Financing (BSCF): Making Small Businesses More Bankable
This post highlights the work of an entity - Crafts, Apparels, and Furnishings Network Enterprise (CAFNE), that is quietly pioneering a financing innovation to address the working capital challenges faced by rural producers and small businesses in India.
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Monday
May 10
2010Reporting from Sankalp 2010
Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature and just as Marx discovered the law of evolution in human society, Sankalp 2010 discovered the law of evolution in social enterprises.
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Tuesday
February 2
2010Securitization: Increasing Liquidity in Base of the Pyramid Markets
How does one convert "credit" extended to low-income households into tradable "commodities?" Is there a way to use the best know-how of financial markets to transform an industry that makes small loans to low-income households? Securitization promises to be an answer to all these questions.
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