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Social Enterprise Spotlight: Just Markets For Ghana?s Women
Three years ago Danielle Grace Warren had gone fishing. She was part of a mission to build fish farms in Ghana. These farms, it was hoped, would help generate badly needed income and jobs. The literally graceful and ballerina-like Warren, a creative writer, knew from her experience in Haiti where she had worked on economic development projects that income and jobs were the key to lifting the Ghanaians out of poverty. But they needed to be lots of income and jobs. That simply wasn’t possib...
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Friday Roundup – 8/5/11 – ?Everything is a Remix?
We often confuse innovation with invention. But nothing is ever original; any innovation is just remix of things that came before and reassembled. Our staff and guest writers had a lot to say about innovation this week, both in terms of conceptual thinking around creating something new and regarding concrete innovations to reduce poverty.
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Partnerships, Private Sector, Tech Dominate SID
With an international financial system teetering, the Horn of Africa marred by famine, and aid dollars jeopardized by domestic politics, the Society for International Development’s triennial World Congress held in Washington this weekend was in no short supply of substance or imperatives.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- nutrition, partnerships
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Recruiting Women To The Burgeoning (But Mostly Male) Host Of Angel Investors
Women philanthropists have traditionally stood back from venture capital startups and angel investing; only 13% of angel investors in the U.S. are women. That’s why Natalia Oberti Noguera, a 2005 Yale graduate, founded an angel-investing bootcamp for women. Created to increase the ratio of women angel investors in the social good category, Oberti Noguera’s Pipeline Fellowship is announcing a call for applications for women philanthropists who want to be angel investors in s...
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In Next Practice Collaborative, Top Companies Transition To Low-Carbon Future
CK Prahalad described benchmarking corporate performance against tomorrow’s emerging opportunities as ’next practice’. This week, WRI announced the Next Practice Collaborative with a cross-sector group of major companies to examine new business and finance models for low-carbon economic growth in major markets, including Mexico, India and Brazil.
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Sustainable, Equitable Transportation Policy and the Rickshaw
In cities across South Asia, the ubiquitous rickshaw dominates traffic tangled streets. Yet, solutions to the problem are not as simple as just eliminating the toxic three-wheelers. Integrating new innovations in rickshaw design, manufacturing or upgrading are essential to a pro-poor and environmentally friendly transportation policy.
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- Health Care, Transportation
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In the Philippines, Tablets, Smartphones Lift Market-Based Approaches to Universal Care
Like many industrialized countries, out-of-pocket spending by consumers on health care is often a big problem in the developing world. The national health insurance program in the Philipines, PhilHealth, is constantly innovating with new ways to improve insurance coverage and lower costs. How market-based approaches are playing a critical role.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Public-Private Engagement for Better Health in Africa
While assessing the good, the bad, and the innovative, new report by the World Bank Group finds that public-private engagement is less than systematic. The Healthy Partnerships report evaluates engagement with private providers in 45 African countries. Lead author Connor Spreng, an economist at the World Bank, on the findings.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- governance
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