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With Info, LaborVoices Aims to Revolutionize Migrant Labor Markets
Global labor markets are complex and rife with power imbalances: dangerous working conditions, difficult hours, abusive employers, human trafficking and even slavery. How does one create a more humane and fair scenario? LaborVoices, a new startup social enterprise, aims to place power back into the hands of the worker, starting with information.
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ViewChange: Harnessing Commercial Markets to Fight Malaria
Today is World Malaria Day 2011. NextBillion video partner ViewChange is highlighting several films today that shine a light on successful anti-malaria enterprises, including NetMark, a public-private partnership dedicated to reducing malaria by harnessing the power of commercial markets to distribute insecticide-treated bed-nets (ITNs).
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From Unite For Sight 2011: Community Level Approaches to Health
As a seasoned (as in, once-before) Global Health and Innovation Conference attendee, I knew I was in for a weekend of astonishment, passion and creativity - but also one of perplexity and frustration. As the speakers noted, past problems will continue to be future problems if enterprises do not address social impact - and vice versa.
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Charting the Future at Women’s World Banking
In the final post of a wide-ranging interview, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, president and CEO of Women’s World Banking, discusses expansion at the organization to include multi-product servcies to individuals and explains why consolidation in would benefit the microfinance sector in the long term.
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Friday Roundup ? 4/22/11: Adapting to Climate Change
In the next 30 years, 60% of global population growth will be concentrated in Asian cities. A new report by Intellecap, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network identifies key opportunities for building profitable enterprises that also help citizens adapt to the symptoms of global warming.
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On Earth Day: From Ecuador, Portrait of a Green Enterprise
Decades of oil drilling in Ecuador has devastated huge swaths of the Amazon rainforest and its wildlife, threatening to destroy the ancestral homes of native tribes and their culture. But some of these indigenous people are finding a way to balance development and conservation, while building an ecologolically friendly business enterprise.
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Notes from the Vision Summit in Germany
"People who have a vision should go see a doctor." - Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Around 1,000 of his fellow countrymen and several social visionaries from abroad duly ignored this recommendation, once formulated by the pragmatist leader as the German social entrepreneurship community gathered for the fourth Vision Summit.
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Africa Election Watch 2011: Nigeria
The most significant presidential election this year in sub-Saharan Africa occurred this past weekend. Nigeria already has so many pieces of the puzzle: bountiful resources, auspicious geography, a famously entrepreneurial and optimistic population. But it will take an exceptionally shrewd and courageous leader to fit the pieces together.
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