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From Seed to Harvest, BASF’s BoP Initiative is Rooted in Education, Profits: A video Q&A from BCTA’s Forum 2014
“The single biggest need gap we found was in information,” said Raman Ramachandran, chairman of BASF Companies in India, during last month’s Business Call to Action Forum 2014. Bridging that gap rested with providing Indian farmers tips on how and when to fertilize and safely utilize pesticides. Ramachandran sat down with NB to provide more details on the project that is boosting farmer knowledge and income.
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- Agriculture
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Financial Capability + Savings: IPA explores their impact on school performance and other areas
The theory behind financial education is that by learning financial concepts from an early age, children will make welfare-enhancing financial decisions when they grow up. But does it work? Innovations for Poverty Action runs down the results of programs in Uganda and beyond that are offering savings accounts, financial capability training or a combination of the two.
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- Education
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Unlocking the Potential of Nigeria’s Private Sector: A look behind the $24 million pledge for health innovations
Nigerian business leaders have made a $24 million commitment, through the Private Sector Healthcare Alliance of Nigeria, to focus on maternal and child mortality reductions for the Saving One Million Lives initiative.
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- Environment, Health Care
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NexThought Monday – Impact White Washing?: When any deal in a developing country with a few generic metrics can be considered impactful
Max Pichulik, who runs an investment accelerator in South Africa, argues that it is way too easy for fund managers to declare themselves as impact investors. Unless we ensure meaningful rating systems, provide adequate education to the marketplace and have clear safeguards in place, Pichulik says that impact investors run the risk of placing capital with marginal impact.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Twitter Top Ten – 11-2-14: Our favorite tweets of the week
Our "favorite tweets of the week" feature continues. Check it out. And help us out by keeping a close eye on your feed this coming week and tweeting your favorites our way.
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- Health Care
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Weekly Roundup – 11/1/14: Apple Pay is here – should low-income consumers care?
As you may have heard, Apple recently launched a mobile payment app in the U.S. Within three days, it had become the top mobile wallet in the country - and sparked some surprising resistance. We discuss the implications for low-income consumers in the U.S. and emerging markets, along with some good news in global development, in this Roundup.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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Prepaid Protections: An interview with Cecilia Frew, Head of U.S. Prepaid at Visa
Prepaid debit cards are booming in the U.S., with consumers loading over $64 billion onto them in 2012. But due to regulatory uncertainty, there’s widespread confusion about their fees and terms. To address this, Visa is creating a special designation for cards that meet a set of consumer-friendly standards. We spoke with Cecilia Frew, Visa’s Head of U.S. Prepaid, about the product.
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- Finance
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Four ways to build an ecosystem to support business in low-income markets: How the Philippines is crafting a model worth replicating
The Philippines has proven itself an excellent example of a nation’s capacity to support ecosystem development, a model that could well be replicated in many countries. As UNDP looks to replicate the success of its country-level collaboration through the Business Call to Action Initiative in the Philippines, it is establishing a collaboration with the William Davidson Institute as part of the BoP Roadmap Initiative.
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