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Guest Post: Could ?GIM 2.0? Enable Scale through Policy Innovation?
In 2008, UNDP?s Growing Inclusive Markets Initiative released its first report, Creating Value for All. It is now considering its next steps, "GIM 2.0". While awareness and interest in inclusive business seem to be growing, few inclusive business models have actually achieved scale. What is the role of initiatives like GIM in this context?
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Agora Partnerships and Heroes of Development
As I learn more about entrepreneurship and job creation efforts I am increasingly convinced that we need a broader range of tools than either microcredit or social venture funding typically offer.? Recently Agora Partnerships caught my eye when they and their founder Ben Powell were awarded a Draper Richards Fellowship.
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Welcome to the New NextBillion.net
About six months ago we began working on the redesign of NextBillion.net. We’ve listened, brainstormed, tested, re-tested, built, re-built... and today we’re pleased to introduce the new version of NextBillion.net. Read the rest of the article to get a preview of what’s new. We hope you like it and look forward to hearing what you think!
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Roundup: Catching Up on Our Base of the Pyramid Reading
My friend David, NextBillion reader and BOPreneur, pinged me last night and rightly asked why NextBillion.net has been slower than usual these days, missing a few of big news pieces that relate to the base of the pyramid and development through enterprise. He was right.
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iBoP Asia: Science and Technology Innovations for the Base of the Pyramid
iBoP Asia recently announced the winners of their first small grants competition and the second competition is coming up soon. I wanted to highlight the grants program for our readers at NextBillion, as I know that many of you have the ideas they are looking for.
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Job: Innovative Finance Position, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Position: Innovative Finance Role Location: Geneva, Switzerland Organization: The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)’s mission is to reduce malnutrition through the use of food fortification and other strategies aimed at improving the health and nutrition of populations at...
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Job: Business Development Manager – Marketing, Acumen Fund
Acumen Fund is looking to create a step change in terms of awareness, excitement, and membership in our community of supporters and advocates ? from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and someday millions of people who believe that markets and entrepreneurship have a central role to play in the global fight on poverty.
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Migration in Light of the Economic Crisis
As I was perusing my Sunday New York Times this past week, two stories stood out to me. Both mentioned migrants struggling to keep jobs in the developed nations where they were working. One article profiled Alexandrina Ciurea, a Romanian cleaning woman working in Rome; the other described...
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