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NexThought Monday – MNCs, the Grassroots and the Future of the BoP
Santa Clara State University’s Jim Koch says two big conferences in the last ten years have come to frame BoP market development efforts. What can we learn from what did – and what notably did not – transpire in the decade between the two gatherings? Among other things, Koch says major corporations have been greatly eclipsed by grassroots innovators.
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Teaching People Not Just to Fish, But to Build Businesses Too
As USAID’s annual letter this year notes, in development it is no longer enough to teach a farmer to grow a new crop—or in this case, to fish. Our work isn’t done until we help a farmer learn to run a successful business too. This is precisely what is happening in Bangladesh.
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Five Ways to Make Electronic Delivery of Social Transfers Work for the Poor: Insights from CGAP’s recent Focus Note
Cash transfers are an increasingly popular tool to provide assistance to the poor, with nearly 174 million individuals in 43 countries receiving them. E-payments could improve the effectiveness of social transfers, but it’s very difficult to implement them effectively. A recent study conducted by Bankable Frontier Associates explores four programs on the cutting edge of designing and implementing e-payments in low-income settings.
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5 Inspiring Books on Social Entrepreneurship
As the founder of a social enterprise called LSTN Headphones, I often look to companies and entrepreneurs I admire for advice on navigating our growing business while continuing our mission to do well while doing good. Below are a few of the books I’ve found to help guide our startup through new challenges and inspire the team to work harder to make our company succeed.
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Best Business Schools For Social Entrepreneurship
Over the last decade an increasing number of entrepreneurs are interested in initiating entrepreneurial projects that aim to bring social change. This special type of entrepreneurs are called social entrepreneurs.
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500 Million Indian Youth Need New Job Skills: Can the country’s entrepreneurs help?
Rahil Rangwala says by 2020, India will account for nearly a quarter of the global workforce, and the average age of India’s population will be 29 years (compared to 37 for the U.S. and China). But there’s a big opportunity for entrepreneurs to develop training that complements what employers offer in-house.
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Afford Two, Eat One: A new report explores financial inclusion in rural Myanmar
Myanmar is a country with very low formal banking penetration, but changes are afoot that will stimulate domestic financial activity. In March of this year a team of Myanmar-based researchers mapped the changing financial landscape in the country, aiming to provide a foundational reference for organizations wishing to develop products and services for financially constrained consumers.
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Dating site tech inspires health research website
A meeting on drug discovery and development run by The International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases in London, United Kingdom, yesterday, brimmed with useful tips and resources for the research community. One of them was the just-launched space on The Global Health Network’s website dedicated to collaboration on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
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