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Weekly Roundup – 5/4/13 : The stain of trade in Bangladesh
As the death toll in Bangladesh surpasses 500 people in the collapsed Rana Plaza that housed five garment factories employing more than 3,000 workers, new urgency has taken over old debates about the real cost of cheap garments and the role of globalization.
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- Uncategorized
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The Social Progress Index:: A new language for development, or 21st century Esperanto?
Therespected Harvard professor Michael Porter, father of the catchphrase "shared value," has come up with the Social Progress Index. His guiding principle: Instead of making any attempt to balance financial metrics, such as income, against social outcomes, such as clean water, SPI simply measures the outcomes.
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- Impact Assessment
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Re-evaluating Impact Evaluation: Why solely focusing on financials is flawed and other key points from a recent workshop
Organizations struggle to develop robust impact evaluations. If poorly designed and executed, an evaluation can result in misleading conclusions and waste precious resources. A recent workshop hosted by the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs focused on outcomes data collection and analysis. Anyone concerned with social impact measurement, will want to check out these key points.
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Investing
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Viva la Revolucion?: What can other countries learn from Cuba’s health care model?
There are no shortage of reasons to be critical of communism, or of the Cuban government. And free enterprise brings innovative solutions to poverty and health care delivery that top-down systems can’t match. But Cuba’s health care system has managed to deliver impressive results with very limited resources. In this Q&A and presentation, Dr. Peter Bourne discusses the Cuban model, and what developing (and developed) countries could learn from it.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Sankalp Unconvention Summit 2013: The Global Hotspot for Innovation
Though the ecosystem is fairly developed in India, with innumerable incubators, investors, and facilitators, it is the entrepreneurs who continue to push the boundaries of innovation in India, capitalizing on the country’s rapid growth and optimism, and fighting head-on with the harsh realities of rural distribution, need-finding and scaling in a country where consumer tastes change every 100 kilometers, and institutional bureaucracy and corruption.
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- Social Enterprise
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Doctors on Wheels: Projeto CIES brings mobile clinics to Brazil
Brazil has a strong public health care system, but it’s plagued by overcrowding and out-dated equipment. And though it provides virtually universal access to primary care, it has lagged at delivering specialized care. Projeto CIES was founded to deliver prompt, privately-run specialty care in collaboration with the public sector, through mobile clinics. CHMI’s Rose Reis talks with Dr. Roberto Kikawa, the physician who started the initiative.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Building Impact Investing Momentum in Africa
Earlier this month, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Tony Elumelu Foundation launched the Impact Economy Innovations Fund (IEIF) to improve the lives of poor and vulnerable people throughout Africa. The fund was announced at the Impact Investing in Africa: Accelerating the Industry Regionally forum in Cape Town, South Africa. The fund will target projects that seek to enable capital solutions, foster entrepreneurial ecosystems and promote the impact investing industry infrastructure.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Avoiding the Generation Gap : Young people and financial access, going beyond mobile money
For many young people, owning a phone is aspirational and closely tied to their self-esteem. The surge of young people with phones or phone access and the emergence of low-cost mobile banking technology suggests that it may be timely to engage them in accessing digital financial services and building their financial capabilities.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
