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Village Capital: Lessons Learned from our First 15 Programs: And announcing our 16th and 17th
Village Capital operates accelerator programs worldwide for early-stage enterprises serving the BoP. In our three-month programs, groups of 10-20 entrepreneurs build world-changing innovations in education, health, financial services, energy, and more. In March, we’ll be wrapping up our 15th program, and we’d like to share a few of our key learnings about the seed-stage/accelerator space.
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Paul Polak to Speak at the Latin American Impact Investing Forum: Feb. 20, 21 and 22
On February 20, 21 and 22, the Third Annual Latin American Impact Investing Forum will be held in Merida, Mexico. The forum will feature expert lectures and interviews, panels of case studies, workshops, and roundtable discussions. Paul Polak will be a featured speaker on February 21.
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NextThrillion: Daisy Alice Anderson, Future Blogger, Joins NextBillion Family
I’m Dan Shine, communications manager at WDI and a colleague of Scott Anderson, NextBillion’s managing editor. Along with NextBillion Health Care’s editor James Militzer, I am piloting the NextBillion mothership while Scott takes some well-deserved and well-earned time off.
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Charting the Financial Inclusion Groundswell in India: The NPCI’s top innovations
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is aggressively leading the Indian government’s efforts to bring banking to all sections of society. After nearly a decade of research and trials, many of these financial innovation measures for the poor are starting to make their way to the marketplace.
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Special Series (Part 5): BPO for the BoP – The Path Towards Sustainability and Scale: Lessons on Expansion from a Mature Impact Sourcing Provider
In part five of our six-part series on Impact Sourcing, we highlight Digital Divide Data (DDD), an internationally acclaimed social enterprise that employs more than 1,100 people and operates in several countries, including Cambodia, Laos and Kenya. It recruits, trains and employs youth to perform BPO work, while also providing them financial support for higher education.
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- Education, Technology
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Resilience Meets Disaster Economics: Investing to stop disasters before they start can save lives and money
Global needs for crisis response are increasing. From drought in the Horn of Africa to battering storms in Haiti, natural disasters are becoming common and responding to them can be expensive. At the same time, donor funds are becoming scarce. This confluence of circumstances should drive a change in how the world funds crisis response.
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Pushing Back on ‘Scalable’: Reconsidering the buzz word for a successful social enterprise
If a social business improves people’s lives by helping them overcome the poverty line by fulfilling their needs, I can’t believe scalability is the key for its success. I believe its purpose should be and is to become self-sufficient, with fair wages for employees within the law. How can this not be considered a success?
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- Impact Assessment
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Quality Medicines for All: The case for more local drug production in Africa
Significant progress has been made in providing treatment to people in Africa suffering from diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Yet an access gap remains. Juergen Reinhardt, of UNIDO, advocates addressing this gap by strengthening Africa’s local pharmaceutical industry.
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- Health Care
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- public health
