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Mobilizing Savings Through Insurance
Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO of Women’s World Banking, discusses the challenges and opportunities of match-savings programs and micro-insurance, and the importance of understanding clients. In Jordan, WWB is piloting a health insurance program where insurance products are coupled with loans, resulting in strong customer relationships.
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The Results Are In: Devex Top 40 Development Innovators
Devex is delighted to present the Top 40 Development Innovators. At the core of this initiative is a survey of aid workers and international development professionals designed to recognize the most innovative of the world’s leading international development organizations. Today, the survey is complete and the results are in!
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Talking Metrics: Is Standardization a Dream?
Last week I sat down with Calvert Foundation, Grassroots Business Fund and E+Co to discuss the use of metrics by socially oriented businesses. The conversation focused on how they use metrics within their organizations and what role they see metrics playing in the future. The discussion demonstrated the need to change how stakeholders view metrics.
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Can Microfinance Ignite a Good Governance Epidemic?
By serving as examples of effective corporate governance, microfinance providers could succeed where so many financial institutions have failed and in ’infect’ their client and community networks with the ’disease’ of strong corporate governance. With almost 3 billion unbanked people still to reach, those are huge potential networks to infect.
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Urban Energy Labs: Researching BoP-Focused Energy Solutions for Rural, Urban Customers
As urbanization increases, more families are moving to the cities and bringing their traditional practices with them. Although fast urbanization is a nightmare for city planners and policy makers, it proves to be very useful for the designers and researchers who create products and services targeting the world’s Base of the Pyramid markets.
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Countdown to SOCAP/Europe Begins
From Amsterdam, Malmo, London, Zurich, to Paris, the SOCAP team asked key stakeholders what they want to see and hear at SOCAP/Europe. What innovations and entrepreneurs should be presented, and what social problems should be addressed? The output is a schedule with 70 panels, plenary, keynote and workshop sessions organized along seven tracks.
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NexThought: Eric Kacou on Mindsets and ’Survival Traps’ at the Base of the Pyramid
This week’s NexThought comes by way of Eric Kacou, the author of Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity in BoP Markets, the latest piece of literature in the space of entrepreneurial approaches to development. I encourage you to read below for an interview with Eric.
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Friday Roundup – 4/15/11: New Books Dive Deep into “Poor Economics” and Prosperity in BoP Markets
Two new books hit the shelves in the last few weeks. Both are very relevant to the development community and especially NextBillion’s development through enterprise dialogue.
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