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IADB Announces Innovation for Inclusive Development Grants
The Science and Technology Division of the Inter-American Development Bank is pleased to announce the launch of its grants program: Innovation for Inclusive Development. The objective of the program is to foster innovation in products, processes, and services and engender solutions that can...
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Harnessing India’s Human Capital Through Educational Opportunities
India’s growth depends on its ability to significantly revamp its dismal education sector, which suffers from problems of outreach and quality. A recent study shows that the public education sector may be beyond saving.A possible solution comes in the form of sustainable investments in a...
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The Difference Between Entrepreneurship and a Lack Thereof in Rural South Africa
I recently spent three weeks in South Africa, primarily in the rural Limpopo Province bordering Mozambique, Botswana, and Zimbabwe. While the Republic of South Africa is the 25th richest country in the world, I was struck by the extent to which first-world lifestyles co-exist with endemic...
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Too Much Money Chasing Too Few Investments?
In recent years, the capital markets have infused millions of dollars into the ’development sector.’ While we applaud the growing interest in development through enterprise, the question arises: are there enough quality investees? Or, more simply, is too much money chasing too few...
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Big Award for the KickStart CEO
So it seems KickStart has something else going for it, as if a viral video featuring Maasai rapper Mr. Ebbo weren’t enough... The CEO of the San Francisco-based social enterprise, Martin Fisher, won the Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability this week for his innovative and affordable...
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SMEs Are What’s Next
"What poor countries need most is not more microbusinesses. They need more small-to-medium-sized enterprises, the kind that are bigger than a fruit stand but smaller than a Fortune 1000 corporation.” These were the words of James Surowiecki last month in his New Yorker piece What...
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Bee Stings and Poverty
Last night I read a good piece in the interesting Aguanomics blog. It comes from a recent article related to “The Persistence of Poverty: Why the Economics of the Well-Off Can’t Help the Poor” a book by Charles H. Karelis. I found it thought-provoking and worth sharing with the...
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Interview with Erik Simanis: BoP, Green, Development and Much More
Erik Simanis is not your average Ph.D. student.? For one thing, he’s done work on his degree at two separate institutions (the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and Cornell University’s Johnson School of Business.)? Furthermore, he’s spent more time...
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