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NexThought Monday – The Dark Side of Reverse Engineering
A key difference between reverse innovation and the earlier work on base of the pyramid strategy is the promise – even expectation – of large and profitable up-market migration for the innovations incubated in the underserved space. This thinking has upsides, and potentially, a very dark side.
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Weekly Roundup – 3/8/14: Why ‘women’s empowerment’ impacts much more than 51% of the population
This week we didn’t need a bloodhound to pick up on the trail of enterprises and nonprofits that advance the cause of women and girls, advancing the world economy in the process.
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New White Paper: The Case for Using Behavioral Economics in the Financial Inclusion Space
It’s no secret that saving money is a good idea. But time and time again we see people failing to save for the future, despite their best intentions. A new ideas42 white paper shows the important role that behavioral economics can play in increasing savings rates among the poor.
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Fixing Health Care in India: Roundtable participants looking at incentives, disincentives embedded in the system
A small group of bureaucrats, practitioners, entrepreneurs and academics have identified priorities in Indian health care and hope to design real-time priorities to address them.
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Blazing a New Mobile Money Trail: Smart regulations could help Peru maximize mobile money’s impact on financial inclusion
Peru has been cited as an example of a country with the right market conditions, population size and regulations to tap the full potential of mobile money. Klaus Prochaska of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion discusses what regulators have done right, and highlights key lessons from Peru’s experience.
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Mapping Bhopal and Chandigarh: A social enterprise push for jobs, a non-profit culture looks toward business
In second in a series of articles provided by Villgro’s Unconvention|L team and Okapi Research, which are visiting nine tier III cities in India, Lina Sonne explores the potential of Bhopal and Chandigarh. Both cities have strong potential to build on their educational and NGO roots to emerge as regional social enterprise ecosystems hubs.
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College Credit: How U.S. university students are helping the underbanked build credit in their campus communities
In the U.S., good credit is a basic requirement for entrepreneurs and average consumers alike, and a lack of good credit is a major problem – especially for those with lower incomes. But while service providers are often reluctant to lend to the underbanked, college students across the country are filling the gap with campus microfinance institutions.
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Competitive Co-Advantage: In an iDE initiative ‘farm business advisors’ help deliver products and profits to Cambodian farmers
Lors Thmey, which means "new growth" in Khmer, teaches local entrepreneurs to become farm business advisors (FBAs). That means that in addition to selling products to farmers, they’re trained to be consultants, too. As a result, farmers produce better crops and make more money, and the FBAs expand their businesses and boost their incomes, too.
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