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Unleashing Innovation: The Story Behind the Low-Cost Incubator ‘Embrace’
As some of the world’s leading social innovators come together this week at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, Link TV’s ViewChange project is looking at some of the most exciting social innovations taking place around the world. Guest Writer Linus Liang, COO of Embrace, shares the story on the low-cost incubator.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Guest Post: How USAID is Putting Local Wealth to Work
In our 12-year history issuing credit guarantees, the Development Credit Authority (DCA) has worked directly with more than 200 local private financial institutions, reaching more than 100,000 credit-worthy, but underserved borrowers. In 2011 we established 37 guarantees that will mobilize an additional $200 million in commercial capital in 21 countries.
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- microfinance, scale
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Ennovent Launches the Impact Circle
This week, Ennovent launched the trial version of the Impact Circle, a network of investors offering diverse capital solutions to sustainable enterprises.The circle brings together a group of more than 10 accredited investors and funds looking to create a sustainable impact at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP).
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- Social Enterprise
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Africa Election Watch: Poverty and Power in Senegal
The implications for Senegal’s significant impoverished population are substantial. While incumbent President Wade had promised to cut down on corruption and enhance economic opportunity in Senegal, ordinary citizens have seen little improvement in living standards, even as foreign investment flows into the country’s profitable mining, telecommunications, and service industries.
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- governance
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NexThought Monday: Poverty, Identity and Design
I have been, in a short stretch of time, to Buffalo, Nairobi, Mexico City; and Detroit. Each of these cities has its own colorful, distinct identity, and shares in common (but not exclusivity) a struggle with deeply-rooted poverty. While it’s difficult not to compare the causes and commonalities of poverty in these vastly different places, it’s more useful, perhaps, to explore the role that identity might play in solving it.
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Weekly Roundup: A Doctor, Anthropologist (and Rapper) at the World Bank
“It’s time for a development professional to lead the world’s largest development agency.”
That was President Barack Obama introducing Dr. Jim Yong Kim as the (likely) next president of the World Bank on Friday. As president of Dartmouth University, co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH) with Paul Farmer and a former director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization, Kim - not an economist or banker but an anthropologist and doctor - does break the mold as next the World Bank leader.- Categories
- Education, Health Care
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Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development
Last year, USAID, the Government of Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and DFID jointly launched Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development to find tools and approaches for mothers and newborns in their most vulnerable hours. In the second round of the challenge, for which entries are due April 2, donor partners expect to award up to $13 million in as many as 30 grants.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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On World Water Day: Mapping the Water and Sanitation Sector
When considering the entrepreneurial landscape in the water and sanitation sector overall, there is an enormous opportunity for social investment to make an impact; however, in order to be successful, social enterprises will require innovative approaches to tackle the serious challenges that remain.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
