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Microinsurance: Ripe for Disruption
The microinsurance market grew to more than 500 million risks in 2011, from 78 million risks in 2006, and could be as large as 360 million people in Latin America alone, according to a report from Celent.
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Expanding the Platform: What’s holding back Kenya’s mobile money ecosystem – and how to improve it
Kenya leads the world in mobile money, but the wildly successful M-Pesa platform is still used mainly for remittances. For the country to realize its mobile finance potential, it must develop a much broader range of payment use cases, says Jake Kendall. He challenged a team of researchers to identify the country’s mobile finance challenges and to come up with solutions - here’s what they found.
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Beauty as Business: Research on women entrepreneurs in India
Women’s World Banking conducted market research in North and South India to support the expansion of an individual lending program. Their goal was to understand the financial needs of micro-entrepreneurs and identify how individual loans could help them reach their business goals. In this post, they discuss the findings from one particularly promising business sector: beauty parlors.
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NexThought Monday: Three steps to finding and hiring great social enterprise talent
There is a growing interest in social enterprise careers the world over, yet the sector faces challenges in attracting the right talent. Given that it is a relatively young space, it needs to look outwards to fulfill its growing talent requirements. Based on my experiences in HR in this space during the last few years, here are three ways recruiters can do that.
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Social Enterprise in Haiti: An oxymoron or a reality?
More than two dozen development-minded thinkers and doers convened in Cambridge, Mass., for a competition-based workshop designed to find a market-based solution to cholera in Haiti. The winning idea, which includes recruiting and training “community chlorinators,” is expected to be up and running by this time next year.
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Impact Sourcing: How combining work and study ends the cycle of poverty for good
When we launched Digital Divide Data as a social enterprise in Cambodia in 2001, we quickly realized that providing work opportunities to disadvantaged high school graduates was not enough. In time, we saw that our work-study participants were able to access new professional opportunities and earn higher incomes. Twelve years later, we hope this impact can be scaled up by our organization and others to include many more people and communities around the world.
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16 Case Studies Chronicling BoP Ventures : A report from the BOP Global Network
The BoP Global Network has released the report “Raising the Base of the Pyramid Through Enterprise - Innovative Case Studies of BoP Ventures and Initiatives” has been published. The report documents 16 case studies implemented by the BoP Global Network Learning Labs (also known as Innovation Centers) from around the world.
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MBA Programs Increasingly Incorporate Social Goals
Students seeking to “do good” have traditionally sought higher education programs in fields such as nonprofit management, social work, or public policy and administration. Recently, increasing numbers of these students are turning to business schools and, consequently, business schools are adjusting their curriculums to meet the change in demand.
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