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Guest Post: M-PESA Gets High Marks as It Goes Down Market
New data shows M-PESA’s reach is spreading down market while service and customer satisfaction are at all time highs.
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Global Entrepreneurship Week: Let’s Get to Work
With 100 countries, 40,000 events and 10 million people, Global Entrepreneurship Week has grown exponentially with the global economic turndown. And never before have so many people had access to so many good ideas for starting and flourishing new enterprises.
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Friday Roundup – 11/12/10: Updates on Tata’s Nano and Health Innovations
The Tata Nano, transportation for the base of the pyramid and mobile health innovations. That plus our weekly summary of posts and noteworthy opportunities.
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Defining (Social) Entrepreneurs Up
In a keynote address delivered to the Novartis Power of Partnering National Meeting this week, Valeria Budinich - Ashoka’s Vice President of the Full Economic Citizenship Initiative - presented the case for not only why (social) entrepreneurship is important for non-profits in the business of making a difference, but also why collaboration is key.
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An Update on the Idjwi Project
In a recent interview, Dr. Sebisaho reviewed Amani Global Works goals from team’s three-month trip to the isolated island of Idjwi: including convincing the community get behind a proposal to erect a hospital and satellite health clinics, and return to New York with a blueprint the citizens of Idjwi will embrace and that Amani can support.
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Wrapping Up Net Impact on … Impact
If standards only aim to include output metrics, information elicited by these assessments will only indicate how well the business model operates based on if they performed as planned or not. This kind assessment does not address the larger question of how and potentially, why the business model is helping or hurting individuals.
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Civilizing the ’Wild West’ of Microfinance
Every emerging industry that has survived to transform the world has had to emerge from its "Wild West" phase ? a sort of testing period where ideas are thrown against the wall to see what sticks and what ends up bouncing right back in its face. After a few decades, perhaps microfinance has reached that defining moment.
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Passing the Entrepreneurship Test
Armed with brief assessment, borrower data spanning seven countries and eight languages, and the interest of financial institutions across Latin America and Africa, the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL) spun out of Harvard. In the coming months, the partnership aims to provide over 30,000 entrepreneurs with access to credit for the first time.
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