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Financial Services for All Kenyans: Equity Bank and M-PESA Go Head to Head
Kenya is home to two extraordinary, but very different, financial service providers that have reached massive scale with unprecedented speed: Equity Bank and Safaricom’s M-PESA.
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Inspire, Empower, Connect: Celebrating Entrepreneurship in the MENASA region
Last week the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region (MENASA) saw a truly amazing ?Celebration of Entrepreneurship?. Entrepreneurs, business professionals, investors, academics and policy makers from across MENASA and beyond gathered in Dubai for this landmark event hosted by Abraaj capital, the regions largest private equity fund.
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CSR That Works: Interview with Hindustan Unilever’s former Chairman and MD, Vindi Banga
I had the unique opportunity to chat with Vindi Banga, former Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Limited, Unilever’s $3.9 billion subsidiary in India. Hindustan Unilever’s unique and effective CSR program employed 60,000 women entrepreneurs in villages to sell Unilever products at affordable prices to the base of the pyramid.
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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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