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Part II: Rwanda Finds Hope in Coffee
Part I of this series described Rwanda?s burgeoning cooperative movement and its thriving coffee industry, which have combined to alleviate crippling poverty and ethnic tensions in this country. Part II of this series places the current success of Rwanda?s coffee industry in a broader...
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Dr. V, Founder of Aravind Eye Hospital, Remembered
Over at the Acumen Fund?s blog, Jacqueline Novogratz comments on the recent death of Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy ? founder of India?s Aravind Eye Hospital. BOP practitioners and international development experts may be familiar with the hospital, which revolutionized eye care by applying...
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More Developments: Fostering a Sustainable Business Climate in Asia
Since covering the lighter side of sustainable enterprise in China last week, I thought it would be helpful to discuss a more practical effort underway to make social and environmental impacts a mainstream consideration among businesses in the quickly developing East Asian region. ASrIA has...
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Part I: Rwanda Finds Hope in Premium Coffee
This Sunday, the New York Times Business section ran a front page article -- Coffee, and Hope, Grow in Rwanda -- on the remarkable story of Gemima Mukashyaka, an orphan of Rwanda?s 1994 genocide, who has returned to her parents former coffee farm and, with the help of USAID and a local...
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Rising Ventures: The Sweet Smell of Success in China’s Rose Industry
More great news about sustainable business trends in China- check out this article on how the country’s organic food exports have surged, increasing at a 50% annual rate. An amazing story related to this development that you should read as you head out for the weekend: Jiangyou Xun Pai...
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Friday Self-Props: Treehugger and Worldchanging
I?m not much for public ego boosting, but a couple newsworthy items regarding the NextBillion.net crew have come up today, and I figured some of y?all would be interested. First, Derek Newberry?s latest post, “TV Hit Proves Sustainability Will ’Win in China’” has been...
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Changemakers Contest – How to Provide Affordable Housing
Changemakers is at it again. Loyal NextBillionites might remember that Changemakers is an innovation-recognition initiative of Ashoka, the award-winning social entrepreneurship incubator. CM runs contests awarding the best entrepreneurs in a given sector ? previous competitions have included...
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The Ghetto Tax
In a report published last month, Matt Fellowes of the centrist Brookings Institution documents a “ghetto tax” paid by lower-income consumers in the United States ? essentially, proof that poor people in underserved areas pay more for basic goods and services. Sound familiar? In...
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