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In Pakistan, Going Beyond ‘Potential’: Despite progress, Pakistan’s current environment criminalizes good actors rather than enabling them
Kalsoom Lakhani first wrote about Pakistan’s entrepreneurial potential for NextBillion back in January 2012, when the ecosystem there was still relatively nascent. Nearly three years later, the founder and CEO of accelerator Invest2Innovate says today’s entrepreneurship competitions, co-working spaces, university incubators and organizations are not just a rare occurrence, but are becoming the norm.
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NexThought Monday – Borrowing from Yourself: Innovations that help low-income debtors become savers
There should be huge returns to helping more Americans raise the range of their cash positions – their financial zone of operation, writes Timothy Flacke of Doorways to Dreams. In some cases, moving that range even $500 or $1,000 higher might mean less frequent use of costly short-term credit - which could help prevent short-term borrowing from becoming chronic debt, as is so often the case with payday loans. But how?
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Weekly Roundup – 10/4/14: Reputation for cost-effectiveness blasting off in India
If low cost doesn’t have to equal low quality, and resource scarcity can serve to focus ideas, there just might come a day when international health care companies will be lining up to invest in India.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Technology
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Watch the Replay of our Google Hangout with William Warshauer, TechnoServe’s New President & CEO
TechnoServe is an organization at the center of food security, farmer incomes and environmental sustainability. You’ve heard a lot from TechnoServe experts here on NextBillion, including a post just last week about outgrower farming models. So we’re glad to have the opportunity to host TechnoServe’s new president and CEO Will Warshauer, who has agreed to join us for our next Google Hangout here at NextBillion.
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Training Africa’s ‘Micropreneurs’: Why effective microfinance requires more than just loans
In supporting female micropreneurs, microfinance is a vital poverty alleviation tool in Malawi, says the MicroLoan Foundation’s Paul Abbott. But for these women, microloans are only as effective as the training and mentorship that accompany them. Abbott explains how the foundation has designed tailored modules to teach clients everything from leadership to how to calculate cost, revenue and profit.
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New Partnership to Advance Research on Sustainable and Inclusive Business: Announcing a new report and partnership between the Citi Foundation, Tufts University and Business Fights Poverty
The Citi Foundation, Tufts University and Business Fights Poverty have launched a new partnership, along with a new report: Growth for Good or Good for Growth? The study explores how sustainable and inclusive business activities are changing business.
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Case Study : ‘Digging in’ or ‘building out’ to benefit farmers and buyers in outgrower schemes?
What can we learn from growing tobacco? Although TechnoServe does not work with the crop, nor do we intend to, it turns out there’s a lot we can glean from the successes of tobacco outgrower schemes.
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- Agriculture
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Applications Abound: Three things you should know about broadband for the BoP
The Broadband Effect: Enhancing Market-based Solutions for the Base of the Pyramid, a new study by Opportunities for the Majority at the Inter-American Development Bank and prepared by Hystra, makes the case for broadband adoption and more efficient and productive value chains serving the BoP. The report presents several case studies showing how broadband has enabled new business models that are more effective and efficient in accessing the BoP.
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- Education, Technology
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