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Mass Transit That Works
In grassroots politics, Porto Alegre is best known for participatory budgeting, a practice in which councils of city residents, and not political fat cats, decide how to allocate municipal funds. The success of this practice in rooting out corruption was a watershed event in local politics...
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Building Opportunity for the Majority: Quotes (Day One)
"I compare vaccines to water. I compare vaccines to education.” -Jean R. Stephenne, President, Biologicals, GlaxoSmithKline, Belgium “When you request 100-200 million units, you’re able to influence corporate strategy.” -Professor Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman, One...
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Building Opportunity for the Majority: Day One
I attended the Inter-American Development Bank?s ?Building Opportunity for the Majority? conference today ? a 2-day event serving as a launching pad for newly-elected Bank president Luis Alberto Moreno?s personal agenda. If Day One of the conference was any indication, Bank-watchers...
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Diabetes and Development
Morbidly obese boys and girls who slurp down 20oz sodas after consuming their prepackaged, plastized lunches are the poster children, so to speak, of the diabetes epidemic that is ravaging the United States. But other countries, especially those in the developing world, are no longer immune to...
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USAID’s Microfinance Conference
In the last several days we have talked a lot about our mapping project for the Inter-American Development Bank?s upcoming conference, ?Building Opportunity for the Majority.? But as important as this conference is for the BOP, it should not overshadow other equally important events that...
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BOP and The New Face of Consumerism
In an article published last month in the New York Times Magazine, Rob Walker explains how a group of hipsters are challenging consumerism by actually participating in it. As Walker reports, those who find a corporation?s business practices morally odious have turned to socially responsible...
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Social Innovation Podcasts
Looking to load your iPod with interesting content before the weekend? Check out the Social Innovation Conversation series, a project of Stanford?s Center for Social Innovation. These podcasts feature social entrepreneurs ? everyone from Jed Emerson discussing blended value to Ethan...
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Last call: Oxford MBA for social entrepreneurs
If you?re a social entrepreneur interested in an MBA education at Oxford, the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship has issued a last call for applications for a full scholarship to attend Oxford University?s full-time, one-year MBA program. The Scholarship covers fees and offers a...
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