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  • Can Carbon Offsets Provide Livelihoods for the BoP?

    Reducing greenhouse gas emissions ? and, therefore, global warming ? will require a suite of solutions. The scope of traditional conservation efforts is limited, since most of the world is adopting developed-world lifestyles and consumption habits as their incomes rise. Experts and...

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  • Book Review: The Power of Unreasonable People – How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change

    Upon finishing The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World, three words came to mind: it’s about time.? Lately, I’ve felt that the social entrepreneurship movement has grown too large, encompassing too many sub-topics that don’t...

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  • Book Review: Paul Polak’s Out of Poverty

    So far, 2008 has been a great year in terms of attention to BoP and market-based solutions to poverty. Out of Poverty, a new book by Paul Polak, founder of International Development Enterprises (IDE), just hit the shelves this month and will certainly add to this momentum. IDE’s recent...

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  • Job – Chief Operating Officer, Scojo Foundation

    Position: Chief Operating Officer Location: Hyderabad, India with frequent international travel to the US, China, Africa and Latin America (30%) Organization: Scojo Foundation is a global social enterprise, currently operating in 13 countries, which creates jobs and sustains livelihoods...

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  • Spotlighting “Creative Capitalism:” It Is What You See

    Today, Bill Gates’ speech at Davos has thrown the spotlight on “creative capitalism” and an emerging groundswell of interest in market-based solutions and business models that can drive positive social and environmental change. The excitement around these ideas to create...

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  • Google.org: Fuel the Growth of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

    Both the New York Times and Emeka Okafor’s Timbuktu Chronicles point out Google.org’s newly-announced philanthropic commitment to small and medium-sized enterprises. From the Google.org web site: Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are critical for creating more equitable...

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  • Emerging-Market Multinationals: BoP or Not?

    The January 10th edition of the Economist takes note, in two separate pieces, of the huge successes of a handful of large MNCs. It highlights how these firms have successfully shaken up their industries and acquired well-known brands in their efforts to capture large swaths of global market...

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  • Africa Misrepresented ? What Does it Mean for the BoP?

    William Easterly, respected for his contributions to the development debate and widely know for his opposition to the Jeff Sachs camp, recently published an interesting piece entitled How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa. The article reveals specific statistical...

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