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Rising Ventures: Gram Mooligai Brings Healthcare to India’s Rural Poor
Three quarters of India’s population lives in rural areas. Individual households in these communities tend to spend about $50 per year on primary healthcare. This is hardly enough to pay for private coverage, yet many of these underserved consumers are not reached by government programs. ...
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BOP Job Announcement – Monitor Group
I received an e-mail from Chris Coldeway, a Worldchanging colleague who recently moved to India to work for the strategy consulting firm Monitor Group. Chris is working with Monitor to build its consulting practice in Mumbai around “market-based strategies to create social change.” ...
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The World Investors Should See
Map adjusted to reflect national populations in 2050Investment in emerging economies is on the rise, following an increasing awareness of the improving business climate in these countries as well as burgeoning, high-growth green sectors. These were the thoughts of participants in a recent...
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AMD Says Press Report on 50×15 Inaccurate
NextBillion has spoken with 50x15 project management, and has been told that the press report of the project’s demise is not correct. AMD representatives claim that the report was generated due to a misrepresented SEC filing. AMD says that the PIC will continue, 50x15 is still a goal, and...
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2007 Social Capitalist Awards announced
The 2007 Social Capitalist Award winners were announced this morning by Fast Company business magazine and the Monitor Group. The Award recognizes non-profits that are generating both financial profit and social benefit. Winners that have a particularly strong emphasis on serving low-income...
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News Roundup: Wal-Mart, SCJ, Acumen, Marketplace
I’ve been busy lately, partly because I’m trying track a slew of recent BOP news stories appearing in the mainstream media.? (For readers who subscribe to the main NextBillion RSS feed, you may want to consider subscribing to the News Feed for daily updates).? Four stories set...
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WRI and Worldchanging Book Launch on Friday
On the shameless self-promotion front, I want to mention that we’re co-hosting a book launch and networking event with Worldchanging here at WRI on Friday.? Full details of the event are on the World Resources Institute web site; the basic gist is that we’ll have presentations from WRI...
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“Uniting the World through Compassionate Trade” – One World Projects
One World Projects was founded by Phil Smith, a pioneer in the Fair Trade world before it was hot. Originally conceived as a sustainable alternative for communities living in rainforest areas, Phil worked directly with communities to create crafts from renewable resources and then sold them to...
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