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Visualizing Financial Inclusion (and Shaping It)
With the year 2020 as the target, the Center for Financial Inclusion, along with Citi and Visa, are building a campaign leading up to the Financial Inclusion 2020 conference, set for Oct. 28-30 in London. Although the conference itself is invitation-only given the limited capacity and massive interest, this is a big tent effort.
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A Lose-Lose Situation: How medical insourcing impacts developing and developed countries (Part 2)
The shortage of medical professionals is a global problem, affecting both rich and poor countries. But though developed-world health care centers are responding by recruiting workers from abroad, Dr. Kate Tulenko argues that this is the wrong approach. In her book, Insourced: How Importing Jobs Impacts the Healthcare Crisis Here and Abroad, she explains why medical insourcing is a lose-lose situation for all countries involved. In part 2 of our Q & A, she discusses some possible solutions.
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Remembering C.K. Prahalad : Through Action
As part of the C.K. Prahalad Initiative at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, where C.K. Prahalad was a professor until he died three years ago this month, several business students presented the findings of their recent Multi-disciplinary Action Projects (MAP) on Monday. For this particular batch of MAP projects, in which first-year Ross MBA students devote themselves to a specific company or nonprofit organization for a semester, several students were embedded in BoP-engaged companies. Those firms included MedPlus, ICICI Bank, Move the Mountain, and Aravind Eye Care.
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A Lose-Lose Situation: How medical insourcing impacts developing and developed countries (Part 1)
Both rich and poor countries are dealing with a shortage of medical professionals. Yet many developed countries are responding by recruiting health professionals from countries with even graver shortages. In her book, Insourced: How Importing Jobs Impacts the Healthcare Crisis Here and Abroad, Dr. Kate Tulenko argues that medical insourcing is a lose-lose situation for all countries involved.
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- Education, Health Care
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NexThought Monday – Windows to the World: Why Microsoft’s $75 million mobile drop across Africa matters
Microsoft will spend $75 million to put tens of millions of smart devices into the hands of African youth by 2016, the company announced in February. The weapon of choice in this effort is the Huawei 4Afrika Windows Phone 8. A slight variation of the phone targeted at European markets is twice as expensive.
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Idb Base Forum: Sharpening Focus On Bop: An Interview With Omj’s Luiz Ros on the Second International Forum in June
OMJ’s Luiz Ros says June’s second annual BASE Forum Colombia will attract more than 1,000 attendees. The focus will be on cutting edge information and new models, bringing together civil society, government, private sector to collaborate and come up with a value proposition for the base of the pyramid in the region.
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Why Reinvent the Wheel?: New BIF report looks at adapting existing infrastructure for distribution to the BoP
For those of us at Business Innovation Facility working directly with the companies managing these problems, it’s clear that most cookie-cutter solutions to distribution do not work. In the latest of our ‘Inside Inclusive Business’ series, BIF goes beyond theoretical solutions and focuses on some of the more innovative channel strategies we discovered during our engagement with companies.
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Stopping Micronutrient Deficiencies: GAIN’s Rebecca Spohrer on the potential of food fortification
Micronutrient deficiency is one of the most common public health problems in developing countries, accounting for about 10 percent of the global health burden. But because many people lack access to naturally occurring nutrients, food fortification can offer numerous benefits. In this Q&A with Ashoka Changemakers, Rebecca Spohrer of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition discusses this approach.
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