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President Obama and the NextBillion.net Agenda for the Base of the Pyramid: Part 2
There has been a lot of buzz about new models of foreign aid and the role of social entrepreneurs since our post on President Obama and the NextBillion.net Agenda for the Base of the Pyramid. Guest blogger Apoorva Shah also shared some great points about the important actors in aid reform,...
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Notes From the Field: I have seen the future of healthcare
Editor’s note: Al Hammond, entrepreneur in residence at Ashoka, will write a series of reports documenting his experiences and the learning involved in started a "base of the pyramid"; (BoP) healthcare venture to serve developing countries. This is his first report in the...
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Connecting Dots …
Last Friday Rob wrote news about new Base of the Pyramid conversations taking place, this time in Davos. Great news indeed. For those who can attend, venues like that of Davos (or the one starting tomorrow in Long Beach) are the time of the year when they allow their brains get picked by new...
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Guest Post: Aid and Foreign Assistance Reform in the Obama Administration
The American Enterprise Institute?recently convened a two-day symposium on the future of U.S. development policy and foreign assistance. The nexus between development and enterprise was a recurring theme at the event, and participants discussed how entrepreneurial philanthropy, social...
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Job: Pakistan Portfolio Manager, Acumen Fund
Position: Pakistan Portfolio Manager Location: Karachi, Pakistan Organization: Acumen Fund is a global non-profit venture capital fund, focused on supporting the delivery of critical services ? water, health, housing, energy ? at affordable prices to the four billion people earning...
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Job: Search and Selection Associate, Endeavor
Position: Search and Selection AssociateLocation: New YorkOrganization: Founded in 1997, Endeavor works with High-Impact Entrepreneurs in Latin America, the Middle East, South Africa, and India. High-Impact Entrepreneurs are operating for-profit businesses with enormous growth potential....
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Job: Summer Associates, Acumen Fund
Position: Summer Associates (varied roles)Locations: MultipleNew York, NYKarachi, PakistanHyderabad, IndiaNairobi, KenyaOrganization: Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. We seek to prove that small...
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Next Billions Swarm Davos; Quadir Calls for an End to Aid
It was a high profile news day for the development-through-enterprise community today.? First, a report was published at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland entitled The Next Billions: Unleashing Business Potential in Untapped Markets.? The report was produced by the Boston...
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