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Announcing NextBillion Health Care: The new blog focuses on private and public solutions
Next week NextBillion.net will launch a new sub-blog, NextBillion Health Care, which will address the myriad challenges and solutions in delivering health care to the BoP. The blog will focus on the best practices of social enterprises, health practitioners, large health systems, NGOs and multinational players, such as drug companies, supply chain systems and technology developers. It will also focus on public policy solutions for improving health outcomes for low-income people.
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NexThought Monday: Philippine Life Insurers Find Runaway Success in MFI Partnerships
It’s taken 40 years of experimentation, but in the Philippines, a unique business model has found a way to sell life insurance hand over fist to poor people. The country’s "mutual benefit associations," a study released last month shows, have soared in popularity and now insure 7.5 million members.
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There’s More to Measurement Than … Measuring : An Overview of the 2012 Social Finance Forum
As Arlene Dickinson of Venture Communications put it, when she considers impact in an investment she asks: “Is the entrepreneur really baking in, right from the very beginning, this triple bottom line mentality? Or are they bolting it on afterwards to appear like they are making a difference? ... If it’s bolted on, I’m not interested.” She was one of many experts taking part in the 2012 Social Finance Forum.
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- Impact Assessment
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d.light’s 10 Million Customer Milestone
This year, in the month of Diwali, which is celebrated by lighting several diyas to bring in the new year, households all across India and the world are being illuminated by more than just diyas – d.light is celebrating their ten millionth customer served, and ten millionth house – or business in the case of Asif – that now has access to a clean, reliable, durable and most importantly, affordable source of light.
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- Energy
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(With Video) Financial Inclusion that Serves Savers
To explore possible ways to increase low-income individuals’ ability to save with banks, CGAP brought in IDEO.org to work with one of Mexico’s largest banks, Bancomer.Working with a large bank such as Bancomer provides the ability to scale. However, one main challenge is shifting how the bank collectively thinks – and getting the bank to meet people where they are.
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NexThought Monday: Training Half a Billion People for Good Jobs: How Governments and Vocational Efforts Are Leaving Out the BoP, How to Reform Them for Inclusion
Outdated curriculum and low-paid teachers mean many vocational institutions are simply unable to prepare the students for employability. In the past decade, however, a handful of institutions have been able to provide high quality vocational programs to the bottom of the pyramid.
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- Education
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Weekly Roundup: Big Deals, Big Reports and the Bono Bump
Bamboo Finance and Accion Investments in Microfinance, SPC this announced what they called a “landmark” transaction for the impact investment industry. And based on what I’ve read this week, it’s hard not to see it any other way. Private equity firm Bamboo Finance will take a controlling stake in Accion’s for-profit equity fund, which for nearly 10 years has provided capital to microfinance institutions.
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- Agriculture
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Entrepreneurial Solutions to Poverty: As we wrap up Global Entrepreneurship Week, let’s salute entrepreneurs in frontier markets
As we celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week across 130 countries, I want to salute entrepreneurs in frontier markets who take the biggest risks and face the longest odds—yet still find ways of growing firms that build prosperity for the world’s poor. With few assets other than passion and ingenuity, successful emerging market entrepreneurs envision new business ideas and then implement them.
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