-
South Africa: Brazilians to Share Experiences On Beating Hunger
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini says sharing experiences with Brazil will help South Africa deal with the challenge of hunger.
- Categories
- Impact Assessment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
-
136 Firms, 19 Countries, GIIRS Releases First Impact Investing Analytics Report
The Global Impact Investing Rating System Ratings & Analytics has published the first impact investing industry report to provide comprehensive and verified data on social & environmental impact across a broad range of investments on a global scale. The inaugural GIIRS Quarterly Analytics Report provides a snapshot of key findings and trends in data collected from GIIRS rated companies & funds, covering sector, size and geography.
- Categories
- Impact Assessment
-
Tools of the Trade: Building a Robust Deal Pipeline of Impact Companies in Emerging Economies (Part 1)
Investors in the impact investing space say they want to see more high quality deals and more companies with a successful investment track records that are quantifiably measuring impact. Apparently, billions of dollars of investment capital could be poised and ready if these three issues can be addressed
- Categories
- Education, Environment, Impact Assessment
-
Study: OLPC Fails Students as a Tool for Education
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program of low-cost laptops for developing countries has not led to any measurable impact in academic achievement, according to a recent report.
- Categories
- Education, Impact Assessment, Technology
- Region
- Latin America
-
Business Lessons From A Baby Elephant
Vijay Govindarajan is the co-author, with Chris Trimble, of Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere, which hits bookshelves on April 10. A professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University, Govindarajan chatted with Fast Company about $2,000 heart surgery, elephant prostheses, and the need for American businesses to, in essence, study abroad.
- Categories
- Health Care, Impact Assessment
-
Men Start Businesses for the Money: Women for the Social Value
A study of the sexes reveals that when it comes to starting a business, women are more likely than men to consider individual responsibility and use business as a vehicle for social and environmental change.
- Categories
- Impact Assessment
-
At the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative University: ‘Talent is Universal: Opportunity is Not’
Last weekend over 1,000 students from around the world gathered on the campus of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. for the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative University. To get there, each of them had to make a commitment to action. From tracking cholera epidemics in Bangladesh, to reducing delinquency among disadvantaged young women in Arkansas through mentoring and coaching, to creating awareness about campus sustainability issues in Florida,
- Categories
- Education, Impact Assessment
-
What It Will Take to ‘Graduate’ 1.2 Billion People Out of Extreme Poverty
Despite the worldwide recession of the late 2000s, the total number of people living in extreme poverty has actually gone down in recent years -- so much, in fact, that we've reached the first of the UN's eightMillennium Development Goals five years ahead of schedule, a startling achievement. The number living in "extreme poverty" decreased by 100 million between 2005 and 2008.
- Categories
- Impact Assessment
Subscribe to Our 'Business in Global Development' Newsletter!
Our new weekly LinkedIn newsletter features NextBillion's latest original articles, along with curated news, jobs, bizdev opportunities and events from our recent coverage of impact-focused business in emerging markets.
We respect your privacy. Your information is safe and will never be shared.
Don't miss out. Subscribe today.