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On the Ground at SOCAP – Day 2: Big partnerships, lean startups and government hijinks
Scott Anderson and Marzena Zukowska are your roving bloggers from this week’s Social Capital Markets Conference in San Francisco.
Here are just a few of the many snippets of wisdom they picked up during Day 2 (Wednesday) at the sprawling social investing gathering - taken from four of the day’s many sessions.- Categories
- Social Enterprise, Uncategorized
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Why ‘Cheaper’ Projects Boost Farmer Profits: USAID finds small sums can generate big returns in South Sudan
To examine the effects of USAID’s assistance in South Sudan’s agriculture sector since 2012, a team completed a cost-benefit analysis of the $26 million in USAID funds being spent annually there in support of the Feed the Future Initiative. Part of the analysis examined two different techniques for improving crop yields.
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- Agriculture
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On the Ground at SOCAP – Day 1: Managing Impact for the Long Term
At SOCAP 2013, reaching the “tipping point” of impact investment has emerged as a central pillar of creating systemic and truly transformative change. SOCAP has assembled a group of prominent panelists to kick off the process of mapping the future of impact investment. Here’s what happened in the opening plenary session: “Managing Impact for the Long Term.”
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- impact investing
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Applying BoP Health Care Solutions In the Developed World: A Q&A with Gina Lagomarsino, director of R4D and panelist at the 2013 BoP Summit – Part 2
Rising health care costs are an urgent problem around the world. But can the ultra affordable health care models being developed at the BoP work in wealthier countries? In Part 2 of our Q&A (a preview of the health care plenary at next month’s BoP Summit) Results for Development director Gina Lagomarsino discusses this and other issues that are shaping global health.
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- Health Care
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What’s Working – and What’s Not – in Global Health: A Q&A with Gina Lagomarsino, director of R4D and panelist at the 2013 BoP Summit – Part 1
BoP countries are increasingly embracing the private health care sector and using public financing to support better development of the market. In this Q&A (a preview of the health care plenary at next month’s BoP Summit) Results for Development director Gina Lagomarsino discusses this and other developments on the global health landscape.
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- Health Care
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- governance, public health
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Moving from the What to the How of BoPBiz
The massive interest and the multi-sectorial participation in the BASE II Forum International indicate that the field of base of the pyramid business models has matured. They indicate that the debate has reached another level where the questions and issues turn around the how, not the what.
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Dump the ‘Stupid’ Prizes – and Increase the Rest: Why we need more social enterprise competitions.
Recently, my friend and long-time mentor Kevin Starr wrote an article entitled “Dump the Prizes,” published in Stanford Social Innovation Review. I was initially concerned, because in addition to my day job at the nonprofit One Acre Fund, I am on the board of D-Prize. However, after considering his arguments, I came to the opposite conclusion: We need more prize competitions.
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- Education
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Introducing NB’s New Health Care Editor
I’m excited to announce the newest member of the NextBillion team. Veteran journalist Kyle Poplin has joined NextBillion as the new editor of NB Health Care.
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- Health Care
