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BOP Literature Survey – Request for Proposals
"Growing Inclusive Markets” is a new multi-stakeholder initiative, led by the United Nations Development Programme, which strives to identify and examine the vast unmet potential at the base of the world economic pyramid-the population of 2.7 billion people who live on less than $2 a...
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BOP Job Announcement – Unitus COO
Unitus, Inc. is a Seattle, WA based nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization creating innovative solutions to global poverty using a venture capital model. Unitus also has offices in San Francisco and Bangalore, India and relies on innovative financial instruments and the resources of individuals and...
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Report from Harvard Social Enterprise Conference (2)
Guest blogger Miles Lasater is founder and COO of Higher One which provides financial services to colleges and students.? As creator of the Yale’s annual business plan competition, the Y50k, he was instrumental in ensuring that it has a Social Entrepreneurship category.? He has a hobby as...
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Report from Harvard’s Social Enterprise Conference
Guest blogger Nicholas P. Sullivan has written widely about technology and entrepreneurship, most notably as editor-in-chief of Inc.com. He compiles the annual Wealth of Nations Index, a ranking of seventy developing countries, is publisher of Innovations: Technology/Governance/Globalization...
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Rising Ventures Investor Edition: A New Fund Sets the Bar For Sustainable Investment
Could Brazil break the curve on sustainable investing? If Philippe Lisbona, manager of the new Stratus VCIII fund has his way, the country’s investment landscape could look significantly different in the next decade. Philippe’s call waiting kept buzzing incessantly during our recent...
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Microfinance: Good for Growth, or Overblown?
An interesting debate about the efficacy of microfinance has been going on lately, pitting development experts and economists against one another as they seek to understand the impact of microfinance on economic growth and well-being.The whole thing started with an op-ed in the Wall Street...
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Good News for a Change
My one-line review of Fast Company’s March issue and its annual Fast 50 list: “It’s exciting.” It’s green, it’s sustainable, and it has BOP written all over it, both literally and sequentially (from the Letter from the Editor, to Andrew Zolli’s Business 3.0, to...
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Behind the Scenes at UN Meets Silicon Valley
Last week, I attended “UN Meets Silicon Valley,” an event convened by the UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development.? Craig Barrett, former CEO and now Chairman of Intel (full disclosure: WRI and Intel are partners), also chairs the UNGAID.? Going in, I was a bit skeptical, since...
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