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Enabling Green and Inclusive Markets: Four Entrepreneurs’ Perspectives
What did entrepreneurs think of Rio+20? What are their impressions of how donors, governments, and organizations can and are helping green and inclusive markets flourish? We had a chance to follow up with the entrepreneurs from the four New Ventures India companies that participated in the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum session, “Enabling green and inclusive markets – a case for public-private collaboration” to ask them these questions.
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Wanted: World Changing Inventors (At Least One Reference Required): The $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation, is a call to action
Are you or someone you know an inventor who is developing technological inventions to address challenges in developing countries? Perhaps someone like Ashok Gadgil, whose fuel efficient cook stove, is saving women’s lives in Darfur? Then we want to honor them with the 2013 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation.
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Can Better Data Sharing Help Solve Pakistan’s Education Emergency?: Developyst’s platform is for NGOs, policy makers and educators to make better decisions
Developyst is Pakistan’s first social enterprise in education with a vision to champion data-driven development. The Developyst platform, which will be launched in 2013, seeks to be a space for education stakeholders to grow and develop their network by providing access to data in interactive and visually diverse ways.
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In Just a Few Months, Sistema B (AKA: B Corp) Finds Fertile Ground for Social Enterprises in Latin America
The global community of B Corporations first started in the United States and beginning this year it has expanded throughout South America starting with Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia through Sistema B (as B Corp is known in Latin America). In just a few months there are already 16 certified B Corporations (Empresas B in Spanish)
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Linking Supply Chains, Farmers and Sustainability : A New Rainforest Alliance report analyzes the financing needs for investing in sustainable supply chains
Development agencies, private sector actors and NGOs are working with farmers globally to help them adapt their farming to the needs of the 21st century. But the financial sector argely has been behind the curve. With The Citi Foundation and Rabobank, the Rainforest Alliance launched a finance initiative focused injecting sustainability into supply chain finance.
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- Agriculture
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Financing Business Skills Development for Impact Enterprises: Who Pays?
One of the main barriers preventing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from getting to scale in emerging economies is a lack of core business skills. To meet this need, a plethora of stand-alone business incubators and accelerators have emerged over recent years. All play a critical role in preparing companies for the market, but who ends up footing the bill?
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NexThought Monday: Are Managers Ready to Lose Control?: The bottom-up development perspective in base-of-the-pyramid ventures
Does inclusive business mean that the poor are only included in “our” businesses? Or should it also mean that they have their own flourishing enterprises and we become integrated in their activities? What if the poor want to play a bigger role than being just instruments included in a process that was defined by outsiders?
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Weekly Roundup: SOCAP Discounts, Data Delivery, And Spontaneous Innovation
When summer begins to wane, SOCAP preparations begin to warm up. Yes, it’s hard to believe that Social Capital Markets, that magnetic north on the compass of many impact investors, is less than two months away. Plus, a fresh batch of BoP-related studies.
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