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  • Green Growth

    THE enrichment of previously poor countries is the most inspiring development of our time. It is also worrying. The environment is already under strain. What will happen when the global population rises from 7 billion today to 9.3 billion in 2050, as demographers expect, and a growing proportion of these people can afford goods that were once reserved for the elite? Can the planet support so much economic activity? Many policymakers adopt a top-down and Western-centric approach to such ...

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    The Economist (link opens in a new window)
    Categories
    Education, Health Care
  • New Ideas for Saving the Lives of Women, Children

    From UN Innovation Working Group, a new report on mHealth programs carries an emphasis on viable and scalable business models to improve the way healthcare is delivered to women and children. Indeed, many believe mobile ICT platforms are potential game-changers in delivering health information and services to combat maternal and child mortality.

    Categories
    Health Care, Technology
    Tags
    scale
  • Targeting the Urban Ultra Poor: Taking The Road Less Travelled

    India’s urban population has surged from 78.9 million in 1961 to 286 million in 2001, and could double in another 25 years. To help those urban poor that are left out of microfinance programs, Kriti Social Initiatives decided it was essential for the pilot to include program components addressing livelihoods and healthcare.

    Categories
    Health Care
    Tags
    graduation approach, poverty alleviation
  • SOCAP11: Waste Management that Works

    Parag Gupta, founder and CEO of Waste Ventures recently told me that urban India produces a mound of garbage that weighs twice as much as the Empire State Building every week. In that big pile of trash, Gupta and his team identified a glowing opportunity for economic, social, and environmental impact.

    Categories
    Environment, Health Care
    Tags
    business development, poverty alleviation, waste
  • Bangladesh’s Mobile Tech Surge, What It Means for Development

    While mobile phones have increasingly become ubiquitous in developing countries, Bangladesh has taken the technology’s capabilities a step further. Many new initiatives have leveraged the sheer number of people using mobile phones: 76.4 million in Bangladesh. Neighboring countries have lagged behind in leveraging mobiles for development.

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    Health Care
  • Bolivia’s First Crop Insurance Scheme Promises to Empower Farmers

    Natural disasters can come with six-digit figures of damage and debt attached, even in Latin America’s poorest country. Bolivia ’s rural areas, still dependent on rain cycles, are the most financially vulnerable to drought, frost, hail, floods and other weather adversities. Lose your crops, farmers say, and you’re left with nothing but your debts. Luis Alvaro Toledo, who’s wo...

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    Guardian.co.uk (link opens in a new window)
    Categories
    Health Care
    Region
    Latin America
    Tags
    nutrition
  • Updated: The Ugly Truth About Famines

    The drought, which spurred the UN to declare a famine for the first time since 1984, has affected the entire Horn of Africa, including much of Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. And yet the only areas where the UN has officially declared a "famine" are two pockets of southern Somalia controlled by the al-Shabab militia.

    Categories
    Education, Health Care
    Tags
    nutrition, rural development
  • For Nuru, Energy Applies to Products and Microfranchises

    Nuru Energy uses a multi-tier approach to developing and selling renewable energy devices, while steadily building a network of entrepreneurs. In September, Nuru will open offices in Uganda and Kenya, and plans to close the year with 170 microfranchises in Rwanda alone. The growth plans do not stop there.

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    Health Care
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