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Countdown to SOCAP: Beyond Innovation
Root Capital is pioneering a model for value chain finance and agricultural lending, mainly in the sustainable natural products space. In a pre-SOCAP conversation, founder William Foote shared with us what’s next for the organization.
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Countdown to SOCAP: Metrics, Environmental Performance and Impact Investing
Two months ago, New Ventures and E+Co launched its Global Green! seminar in Costa Rica, a joint effort to help emerging market entrepreneurs improve and capitalize on their environmental performance. Next week we’ll share what we learned with the audience at SOCAP.
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Countdown to SOCAP: The Fastest Growing Industries and Markets
This post, featuring a conversation with Dalberg’s Shashi Buluswar, is the first in a series that will leading to and cover the third Social Capital Markets Conference - SOCAP. NextBillion is a media partner to SOCAP.
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Power to the People: New Report on Energy for the Base of the Pyramid
WRI’s new report, Power to the People, produced in collaboration with the Center for Development Finance-IFMR, looks at the market potential for clean and renewable energy in rural India. The following interview, with co-Author and NextBillion Staff Writer Saurabh Lall, explores the study’s main insights and conclusions.
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Guest Post: Research on Inclusive Markets – Anyone Up for Academic Leapfrogging?
Poverty has long been a blind spot in management research. Even research on emerging economies like China, India or Brazil - that house a significant share of the world’s poor - has evaded the topic. Recent publications on business and poverty could change this - and provide a roadmap for researchers attempting to bring more rigor to the field.
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Friday Roundup – 9/24/10: New York City on Poverty
For anyone even remotely interested in development, it was also an interesting week. Here’s a selection of relevant links from the week behind us, coming from several of the meetings and gatherings that took place just a few blocks downtown.
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Wantrapreneur: Villgro’s Search for Societal Wealth Creators
In order to identify and accelerate the creation of social ventures, Villgro is promoting "Wantrapreneur", a business plan competition to encourage the process of creating and evaluating new ventures that have a central focus on the creation of social value.
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TEDxChange: “Change is Possible”
At the conclusion of TEDxChange, Melinda Gates said, "If there is one message you take away from today, I hope it is that change is possible; we are making progress. When I’m on the ground, I can see the difference we’re making - the positive side - yes, I see sadness and poverty, but I see what’s changing and that gives me hope."
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