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Ensuring a Resilient Financial Future : Reduced public spending is a reality for the foreseeable future
Last year, in partnership with several organizations, we identified a $650 billion market opportunity for financial advisors and investors to invest for impact in a research study entitled Gateways to Impact. Impact investing presents an opportunity to build a financial future for low-income communities that is far less reliant on variable funding sources.
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- Investing
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Hypertension Gets its Moment: Following World Health Day, what’s ahead for a global response?
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have come to the forefront of global health discussions - hypertension was even the focus of the 2013 World Health Day. But in spite of the attention, there’s still limited access to NCD care and treatments in developing countries, and limited public awareness of their symptoms. As the global health community seeks solutions to these problems, can the tactics of developed countries like the U.S. serve as a model?
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- Health Care
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TOMS Shoes and Consumerism’s 3 Biggest Sins
Unlike impact investing, which is often funded by rich angel investors, conscious consumerism allows middle class individuals to make philanthropy part of their daily lives. Unfortunately, the movement remains controversial because companies like TOMS don’t prioritize a lot of things that “normal” social enterprises do. Here are conscious consumerism’s three biggest sins.
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A Turbulent Transition: Afghanistan’s private health care sector emerges
When Afghanistan is in the news, it’s not generally because of health care. But alongside the country’s political turmoil, its health care system has been undergoing a transformation of its own. Departing from its long-standing distrust of for-profit health care, the Afghan government is now seeking to engage with the private sector. CHMI’s Rose Reis interviews Dr. Omarzaman Sayedi of Futures Group about the country’s transition to a free-market health system.
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- Health Care
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- governance, public health
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NexThought Monday: Strategies for Doing Business in Emerging, Diverse Rural India
Only12 percent of India’s population lives in cities, the remaining 88 percent of people are not reaping many of the economic benefits from the country’s evolving leadership status and associate growth. Rural poverty remains rampant; as a result, innovative thinking is required to meet the needs of India’s majority.
I spoke with Pradeep Kashyap, the CEO and Founder of MART, one of India’s leading emerging markets consulting firm, about the opportunities and challenges of creating innovations for rural Indian markets- Categories
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Weekly Roundup 3/6/13: Getting ready for Sankalp 2013
By linking up with Villgro’s UnConvention, Intellecap’s Sankalp Forum later this month is the largest conference of its kind in India, and perhaps anywhere else in Asia.
Considering the rapid scale up of the conference, I wanted to find out what Sankalp would like like in 2013. For more I spoke with Sankalp Forum Director Aparajita Agrawal. The theme of this year’s summit is ‘Looking Beyond Impact: Seeking Transformational Change’.- Categories
- Social Enterprise
