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Beyond the Pioneer : Why Monitor’s next chapter on scale focuses on factors from outside of the social enterprise
We spoke with Harvey Koh, director at Monitor Inclusive Markets, about the new study, Beyond the Pioneer: Getting Inclusive Industries to Scale. It is the widely anticipated follow up to 2012’s From Blueprint to Scale: The Case for Philanthropy in Impact Investing. The new report details the very real structural barriers that social entrepreneurs must overcome if they expect to go beyond their pioneering days and reach scale.
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- Education
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6 Reasons Online Remittances Are Primed to Explode: International money transfers are moving online – and that’s good news for the BoP
Global remittances to developing countries are estimated to exceed $436 billion in 2014, and research suggests that they help lower poverty significantly. Unfortunately, high fees have claimed a substantial part of this money. But multiple factors are driving the industry online, says Logan Lemberger - and that could be a boon for the global poor.
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Why, How Market Dynamics Matters: Interventions can improve health outcomes, but it’s a time-consuming and complex process
Market dynamics is a hot topic these days. Why? Because if we understand market dynamics, we’re better able to design, implement, monitor and evaluate interventions that improve health outcomes by improving the “health” of markets
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- Health Care
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FEATURED EVENT : TBLI Conference USA – May 29-30
TBLI CONFERENCE USA 2014, invites asset owners, asset managers as well as socially responsible investing specialists and service providers to participate in a rich program on current trends, opportunities and challenges in the impact investing space, is set for May 29-30.
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Market Dynamics, Your Time Has Come: NextBillion Health Care launches a new initiative; let the debate begin
Market dynamics is emerging as a key to delivering health care to the base of the pyramid. NextBillion Health Care is launching a new initiative in recognition of that fact.
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Weekly Roundup – 5/10/14: Every investment is an “impact investment”
Every investment has a social/environmental impact on some level - a fact that more and more investors are taking into account. We discuss Stanford University’s decision to divest its $18.7 billion endowment of stock in coal-mining companies, and a recent J.P. Morgan/GIIN survey of top impact investors, in this roundup.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Optimism and Innovation in the World’s Former Murder Capital: Lessons for Detroit (and other cities) from Medellín, Colombia
In just two decades, Medellín, Colombia has evolved from the world’s murder capital to one its most innovative city. In 1995, Medellín took a major step forward by introducing two Metro lines that today serve half a million daily riders. The system has done more than get people around, it has strengthened economic activity within the downtown core and has introduced commerce within historically disconnected poor neighborhoods.
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- Transportation
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After Typhoon Haiyan, Opening a Door to Financial Inclusion: Mobile-based savings accounts are helping low-income Filipinos hardest hit
About 40 percent of Filipinos live on less than $2 a day. This poverty has been made all the more difficult following the typhoon that destroyed or damaged more than a million homes. Rather than handing out paper vouchers or physical cash, Mercy Corps partnered with the Philippines’ only purely mobile-based bank, BPI Globe BanKO (BanKO) on an electronic cash transfer program.
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- mobile finance
