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Event: Small Business Finance – What Works, What Doesn’t?
The debate around SME finance is rapidly maturing. Development professionals and socially-minded investors are well aware of the difficulty entrepreneurs in emerging economies have in securing capital larger than microloans. A World Bank conference to be held next Monday and Tuesday in...
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MNC to BoP: How Entrepreneurs Make The Link
We blog frequently on this site about the importance of large multi-nationals finding ways to tap into BoP markets. This often comes in the form of discussions on reaching the BoP directly as consumers (ie projects like the OLPC or microcredit initiatives). But what about small and medium...
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Job: Gray Matters Capital Foundation, Program Officer
Location: Atlanta, GeorgiaOrganization: Gray Matters Capital Foundation is a charitable arm of Gray Ghost Ventures, a social investment company that seeks to invest in visionary people, with an emphasis on microfinance and education.? Since 1996, Gray Ghost Ventures has worked to foster...
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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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