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Unilever Chairman addresses MDGs
Antony Burgmans of Unilever gives an excellent speech on the role of private investment, businesses and governments towards meeting the MDGs. His beef: broad taxes ( a la French air passenger tax to alleviate African poverty) with little impact. His hopes: the current WTO Doha round will...
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Show Me the Money – A Remittance Review
On the topic of ?in case you missed it?, Ethan Zuckerman of wonder-blog WorldChanging wrote a great piece on remittances back on January 12. It’s difficult to overstate the importance of remittance income to most African nations and many developing nations. Nworah cites a figure of...
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towards “woman-centric” poverty alleviation
MDG Goal #3 is “Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women.” The explanation is clear and concise: “Gender inequality starts early and keeps women at a disadvantage throughout their lives.” But why have a gendered focus in poverty alleviation? Why not simply target...
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Microfranchise modes of healthcare delivery
Along with John and Cory, I had attended BYU?s Microfranchise Learning Lab in Washington DC this past Friday. Two of the four microfranchises featured, HealthStore Kenya and Scojo, operate in the health industry. Granted, microfranchises are flourishing in many industries (see Kirk...
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Microfinance and MicroFranchises: A Perfect Marriage?
Microfinance: Very small loans provided to the poor to provide capital for starting a very small business.MicroFranchise: A small business that can easily be replicated by following proven mentoring, marketing, and operational concepts found in formal franchises.Put them together, and...
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Creating a World Development Corporation
Since the anti-globalization movement burst into the mainstream during the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, multinational corporations (MNCs) have come under increasing scrutiny for their business practices in developing countries. The debate has often centered on whether MNCs and...
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The ?Year of Microcredit?: A Retrospective
2005 was designated as the ?Year of Microcredit? by the United Nations, a title meant to raise awareness of the need to build inclusive financial sectors and strengthen the powerful, but often untapped, entrepreneurial spirit existing in communities around the world. Microfinance is...
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Who profits Whom? Whole Foods CEO and Friedman quibble.
This is not BOP so much as CSR (corporate social responsibility)-related, but the philosophy for the latter certainly affects the former.? Both involve the guiding ethic for how much to profit and who should benefit.” Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business": A Reason...
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