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View from Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities for Accelerating Social Businesses
Cooperation with different stakeholders and support for the people behind the businesses. Those were the main recommendations of the ’Challenges and opportunities for accelerators and incubators’ panel held on June 29 by Fundaci?n AVINA, Ashoka and the Walmart Institute.
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The Citi Foundation’s ’More Than Philanthropy’ Approach Explained
Pamela P. Flaherty is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Citi Foundation, which is NextBillion’s first Sponsoring Partner. She also serves as director of Corporate Citizenship for the company. She spoke with NextBillion about the Foundation’s approach to fighting global poverty through enterprise initiatives.
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Introducing Citi Foundation, NextBillion?s Sponsoring Partner
I’m happy to announce the Citi Foundation as the inaugural sponsoring partner of the NextBillion Network. Like NextBillion, the Citi Foundation highlights innovations, leaders and initiatives to combat poverty through enterprise. This grant will be used to redesign NextBillion’s network of sites and vastly improve the reader experience.
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Emerson on Impact Investing: Passionately Pragmatic!
As creator of the blended-value concept, Jed Emerson has made significant contributions to the way impact investing is being discussed around the globe. In our conversation, Emerson shared his passionate yet pragmatic thinking about the status quo of impact investing, where he sees its risks and how to unleash billions of dollars in social capital.
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Beyond BASE: The Needs Are Here Now, So Are the Markets
The Inter-American Development Bank’s Opportunities for the Majority Initiative recently held its first international event on Business at the Base of the Pyramid. BoP "thought" history was made as business leaders from across Latin America mixed with NGOs, think tanks, consulting firms and other players. Here just a few themes that emerged.
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In the Philippines, Tablets, Smartphones Lift Market-Based Approaches to Universal Care
Like many industrialized countries, out-of-pocket spending by consumers on health care is often a big problem in the developing world. The national health insurance program in the Philipines, PhilHealth, is constantly innovating with new ways to improve insurance coverage and lower costs. How market-based approaches are playing a critical role.
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Applying Behavioral Economics to the Developing World
Complex design requirements, non-existent supply chain routes, extreme poverty - these are all unique issues that entrepreneurs have to combat when developing or producing products/services for the BoP. But what happens when the your client base acts irrationally or doesn’t follow the ’model’ you’ve based your business on?
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NextThought Monday Guest Post: The Road to Self-Sufficiency
I found myself on such a road in the lowlands of Swaziland earlier this year. In the company of Swazi colleagues, I cruised along a curvy stretch hugged by rolling hills and a vast blue sky. We turned onto a nearly invisible dirt path to a dusty, barnlike building, where we prepared to present a workshop to cotton farmers, who were eager to learn.
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