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Weekly Roundup: Sympathy for the Super-Rich: They don’t care much about socially responsible investing – but are the rest of us any better?
Only 20 percent of investors with a net worth of $5 - $25 million factor social responsibility into their investing decisions, according to a recent survey.
You may be rolling your eyes at the obliviousness of these multi-millionaires to the potential impact of their wealth. That was my initial reaction – until I remembered the email I received last January.- Categories
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The Value of ‘Waste’: Waste Capital Partners Sees Value in Impact Bonds, Franchising
Parag Gupta, CEO of Waste Capital Partners, has a vivid example of how much solid waste is produced each week across urban India: twice the weight of the Empire State Building. Only about half of that garbage is actually collected by municipalities for processing. The for-profit and nonprofit organization hopes to expand with impact bonds and franchises to help both farmers and trash pickers.
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- Agriculture, Education, Social Enterprise
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Avoiding Death by a Thousand Cuts: How a Young Social Enterprise Weathered a Series of Microfailures
David Santillán Giles thought everything was on track with his young social enterprise. But he soon found himself dealing with a string of unforced errors that would put his company in jeopardy. He discusses these mistakes and what he learned from them in the latest post in our series on failure in social enterprise.
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- Social Enterprise
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The Missing Link in Africa’s Tech Eco-System: From idea to biz plans, we need more pre-incubation – and this is how
There are now more 100 tech hubs across Africa. While we have been successful in creating spaces for innovators, the next task ahead of us as an ecosystem is to develop services that help young innovators to better define the problem they want to solve and develop a truly convincing value proposition that can scale.
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- Technology
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Putting ‘Health’ Back into ‘Health Clinics’: It’s not good, statistically speaking, to be a mother or child in Mali, but new approaches might bring change
A move meant to shift community health expenses from the informal sector to authorized local clinics came up short in Mali. An NGO is looking to help fix things with a health savings program and other approaches designed to bridge the gap between the clinics and the communities they serve.
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- Health Care
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Making it Easier to Go Digital: Lowering barriers to entry for pro-poor financial institutions in Uganda
In December 2014 Airtel Uganda launched a mobile banking service to allow bank customers to access their accounts through mobile money agents. These services allow pro-poor financial institutions to reach rural Ugandans, but forging these digital connections is complex. In the third post in their series on what it takes for microfinance institutions to go digital, Grameen Foundation explores ways to overcome this complexity.
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Announcing the Winners of the 2015 Case Writing Competition: Different geographies and companies, face the question of expansion
Whether its mobile money in Nicaragua, a joint venture in Bangladesh or a tea company in the Amazon, the winners of the 2015 NextBillion Case Writing Competition all face the same question: What’s the smartest way to expand? Check out this year’s winners.
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- Education
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Celebrating World Health Day with Business Ideas
As their earnings increase, people at the BoP tend to consider health a priority expense, opening the door to businesses interested in serving this market. In celebration of today’s World Health Day, Lina M. Salazar Ortegón with Opportunities for the Majority, provides a few ideas for health companies and service providers in search of new opportunities.
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- Health Care
